Just ask em to undo the Patriot Act while you’re at it.

Unironically, yeah, we can do that.

We're gonna get the first fair Dem presidential primary in decades, and in the general the "not maga" vote that even got Biden elected in 2020.

If we spend time telling progressives to vote in the primary, we can have a FDR style candidate. If we keep shiting on the current party for what it's predecessors did, then it'll depress primary turnout and that same wing snatches the party back.

Here is a counter-arguement. It is the responsibility of the citizens to make sure things like the Patriot Act or ICE are used in a fair manner with oversight and restrictions.

The notion that "the government" is some external entity is an easy and satisfying polemic, but it's not helpful in a practical sense.

Politically, dismantling an agency that's intended to improve public safety can only ever backfire on whoever supports it, regardless of how unpopular that agency is.

Imagine if TSA were to be dismantled, and a year later we have another 9/11. Whoever supported dismantling the TSA would never work in public service again.

It's the political equivalent of blowing out the pilot light and telling your kid to play with matches inside the oven.