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Yes but that was after the American people voted for an administration which explicitly ran on a platform of "we will do exactly that".

The attempted framing is as government oppression by "the elites", but half the country - the regular people - they're all for this.



Median voters voted for Trump because they wanted a regime change after feeling the economic shock of covid. This is the trend across basically every democratic country. Polls on the issue itself show that this split is not 50/50 though the actual number escapes me.




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