With the precedent shattered, the onus now falls on the "deplorables" of the American Right to recognize that the United States is at the point of no return when it comes to weaponizing government.
Bureaucratic incompetence and arrogance is on display in a case where the errors of the administrative state are beyond question, even by a Democratic member of Congress.
We depend on the state for everything from government jobs and student loans to occupational licenses and the use of public resources. And we have the habits of mind to prove it.