From Dave Dubya:
Every Dictator loves it. Every authoritarian craves it. They want power, especially power to purge adversaries. Hitler and Stalin industrialized the purging of opposition and undesirables.
Over here, and now, it has been more refined.
Republican demonization of educators, liberals, union workers, and journalism, in effect, purges opposition. Their voter suppression is another example of this principle in action. Authoritarians chanting “Lock her up!” is what this desire to purge sounds like.
And here we are, living with Trump and the Republican Party running our government.
There’s nothing quite like the power to not only eliminate people who oppose you, but to remove anyone who may have an undesired inclination to tell or expose the truth.
In Nixon’s dark image, Trump fired FBI Director James Comey.