Relating to this, Medium has a piece about the bizarre situation we find ourselves in: Trump Is Turning the Enemies of Civil Liberties into Liberal Heroes: In going after the most egregious violators of American freedoms, the president has forced pundits to rush to their defense
Virtually all of Trump’s specific criticisms are baseless, but he has an uncanny ability to pick targets for his tweet tirades that should be harshly criticized for entirely different reasons. The FISA court has been radically reinterpreting Fourth Amendment law in complete secrecy since the Bush administration. The FBI...has been a civil liberties disaster since its inception and was recently handed increased surveillance authorities under Trump’s watch. The Justice Department has repeatedly tipped the scales against the powerless while shielding the powerful.
Why, then, when Trump tweets something idiotic about the Justice Department, do so many pundits have to say something almost as ridiculous in response, like, “The statute of Justice is blindfolded for a reason, it applies to all without fear nor favor”? Try telling that to 500 children still separated from their immigrant parents because of Justice Department policies,..When Trump criticizes law enforcement or intelligence officials by name, this phenomenon somehow gets worse. His targets are instantly turned into celebrities who must be morally pure, merely because Trump has decided to turn his fire on them on a particular day.
medium.com/s/oversight/trump-is-turning-the-enemies-of-civil-liberties-into-liberal-heroes-dc482dcdad7
There's a danger that people who stand up to oppose this restriction of our liberties might be feted in a similar manner despite their record in other areas.