While working people are getting squeezed by rising costs and families are feeling less secure, this government is spending its energy surveilling protest and intimidating dissent. Thank you Jake Tapper 🦅 for this conversation and for helping keep the focus where it belongs.

@jaketapper The government is tamping down VIOLENT "protests", like people ramming police with their vehicle or interfering with an arrest, ARMED. Dissent doesn't involve violence, looting, interfering with freedom of movement, religion, speech. Those are crimes. SEIU, BLM, Antifa: Thugs.

@jaketapper Assuming a zero-sum tradeoff is misleading. The government can do both. What specific surveillance action would you cut to reduce costs?

@jaketapper Did they follow advice of Lois Lerner? For those with no memory she led IRS when IRS targeted Conservative groups seeking non-profit status.

@jaketapper political theater costs more than groceries now