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Like a lot of existing laws, it won’t be enforced against violent groups on the right, and will be abused against non-violent groups on the left.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/01/a-domestic-terrorism-law-cant-solve-right-wing-violence.html

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-polices-tepid-response-to-the-capitol-breach-wasnt-an-aberration/

P.S. It’s unlikely any new law would touch the president. Some other attackers can face murder charges or other felony charges under existing law.
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Judging by the polls, Trump’s supprt has gone up since the Nazi terror attacks in Charlottesville, and since his bothsiderist bullshit.

I don’t know what’s going on. At best it’s statistical noise... but even so that means that:

As many Americans support neo-Nazi violence as condemn it, and

As many Americans condemn survivors and opponents of neo-Nazi violence

And that is fucking scary.

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