They no longer seem interested in maintaining the social contract

Something at some point in recent times has flipped with the left.

We used to live under the motto "E pluribus unum", which essentially meant the states agreed to give up some freedom to the federal government, in order perform some basic funtions they all agreed upon. But with the clear understanding that certain lines would never be crossed. This was not written on paper, just a general attitude we all lived under. That attitude is clearly gone.

This is a very real question some people might want to consider, at this point what is stopping some federal prosecutor or blue state DA from hauling you before court because of a tweet you sent out or even a vote you made for the wrong canidate, and putting you in prison for 10+years, or even worse sending a SWAT team to your home at 6AM with guns blazing. Don't say something like "durr, that isn’t the law, durr". The law is just ink on paper, in the end its nothing more than that, it has no ability to exist without men willing to enforce it.

I don’t mean this hyperbolicly. I am honestly asking, what is stopping something like that? And who would stop it? There was a time, where they would fear making overt actions like this, and therefor would simply not do it, even if they wanted it. But that fear no longer seems to exist, and they now feel completely emboldened to take all sorts of over the top drastic actions, even against their political opposition of ordinary Americans who disagree with their politics.

Ask yourself, and think about this, "who would stop them from doing virtually anythong imaginable?" Is there a threshold, a limit to their actions? And what is that, and how is that threshold enforced?

The Republican Party, the courts, red state AGs,any parties that may be able to provide some oushback all seem to be in on the entire scheme. Is there anyone else? Is there a limiting principle here at play, or will they keep turning it up to 11 without fear of repercussions?