I would say that the government that imposed a Muslim travel ban, a family separation policy, sweeping deregulation of environmental protection, multiple trillion dollar giveaways to billionaires and deliberately spread misinformation about a pandemic, was also “big government.”
They want to be the persecuted ones? Let’s show them what that is.
Every law they’ve passed against others for decades, let’s pass against them for a few decades.
No fly lists. Travel bans. Bathroom laws. Gerrymanders. Criminalize McMansions.
Oh—let’s take their burgers, too.
Yes, for their own good. Republicans need to understand that we don’t hate *them*, in fact we *love* them as god commands us! We just hate their sinful Republican lifestyle.
The problem with saying that I’m employing a strawman is, I’m repeating things that are being said by such fringe conservatives as, hmm, let’s see, their last president, their current congresspeople, their highest rated propagandists, and the majority of their voters who listen.