re: These are the tactics of a police state, not a republic...

Wait till the Awan scandal breaks.

Tons of Dems, many on committees allowing them access to high side stuff, pooled their funds to pay the Awans' salaries and in return the Awans stole equipment, maintained servers on private property, and routed the nation's most sensitive information to those servers. The Awans are Pakistani. After this came to light, one Dem - Debbie Wasserman Schultz - still employed at least one of the Awans, and then threatened a police chief over property they confiscated related to this scandal.

It's a spy ring. In Congress. Hosted by the DNC. This is the scandal that will destroy the DNC.