With reporting that President Donald Trump has ordered “sweeping changes” at the Internal Revenue Service, including aiming the agency’s criminal-investigative unit at left-leaning nonprofit groups and individual donors, critics are warning of the chilling impacts of the weaponization of state power against the Republican administration’s perceived political enemies.
“This is using the government to destroy dissent,” said Denver Lee Riggleman III, an Air Force veteran and former Democratic congressman from Virginia. “This is textbook authoritarianism.”
