Elissa Slotkins threats to prosecute conservatives moves America closer to civil war

Democrats speak with forked tongue.On Sunday, former President Barack Obama denounced the Trump administration’s investigation of Rep.Ilhan Omar for immigration fraud as un-American. In America, we don’t go after our political opponents, he said.This from the man who sent his Internal Revenue Service after Tea Party protesters, and whose running mate, after he became president, treated traditional Catholics, COVID-vaccine skeptics and parents who spoke out at school board meetings as potential terrorists.Not to mention raiding Donald Trump’s home and sending FBI agents to rifle through Melania’s underwear.Now Sen.

Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.), speaking at the University of Chicago, is calling for targeted prosecutions of Trump staffers. Slotkin observed that while Trump has presidential immunity, the people around him do not. She wants those prosecutions to scare away young conservatives who might want to go into politics. “I want them to be like, ‘Lord, that might be buying myself a ton of problems I don’t want, and so let me avoid participating in that.’  I want that deterrence message sent.”In the old days, politicians used to encourage young people to go into politics on either side in the name of civic engagement.The response was swift — and negative: “Sen.Slotkin, a self-avowed ‘defender of democracy,’ told me and other conservative students that we should live in fear of political persecution if we dare serve our country in the Trump administration,” wrote University of Chicago student Michael Bicksel on X. “Sadly for her, we will never be intimidated by her Bolshevik-style tactics.”You can call those tactics Bolshevik, or maybe fascist, but what they definitely are is un-American.Using the power of the government to silence political foes is just that, though it’s certainly become more popular lately, especially among Democrats.As I mentioned, Obama’s administration went after the Tea Party. Biden’s team went after...