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The whole point of this is to jam it down the throats of the courts snd the nation that (a) this “mistake” was intentional.

The point is they are establishing the acceptance that they can arrest and disappear anybody for any reason or no reason- and the more preposterous the reason the better, simply to demonstrate that reason has nothing to do with how they will act. What they do will be entirely argument and law will not dissuade them.

And (b) — and this is the most important- when they act, they will act with implacable ruthlessness. The point of acknowledging the “mistake” is to refuse to reverse it. The grotesque injustice of it is its very point.

And this is also part of ensuring that any potentially weak sisters on the Republican side perform yet another act of moral self-defilement. Every additional small deed of silent compliance with the indefensible is another step toward total abnegation. Little by little, even those who commenced their careers with dreams of service find one day that they are partners with, and even themselves have changed into, death camp guards.

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