If you're outraged, great! I ask that you remember that new powers advocated by the party you trust - such as warrantless border searches - can also be used by

If you're outraged, great! I ask that you remember that new powers advocated by the party you trust - such as warrantless border searches - can also be used by the party you do not trust. Please, please think carefully when the party you like arrogates powers to the government, and punish them with your vote and advocacy, even though you like them. Examples! -- The border patrol powers cited in the article actually extend 100 miles from the US border. Do you live within 100 miles of the US border, or do you ever visit places that are? If so, then you may be stopped without probable cause by border patrol. https://www.aclu.org/other/constitution-100-mile-border-zone https://www.aclu.org/other/constitution-100-mile-border-zone -- The President of the United States can put even US citizens on a secret assassination list and have them executed. This was a power not authorized by Congress. Even the legal basis for this - the very law that pasted a veneer of legality on this - is secret. The media kept focusing on "drone attacks", but the method of assassination was not the controversial part of all of that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disposition_Matrix https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disposition_Matrix -- Secret trials, in which the defendant is not even allowed to know they are under trial, and witnesses have gag orders not to reveal this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Foreign_Intelligence_Surveillance_Court https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Foreign_Intellig... -- Mass, warrantless surveillance. -- The US requires US citizens living abroad to pay taxes to the US government. By itself, this is arguably a patriotic duty of every citizen, even though the US and the dictatorship of Eritrea are the only countries that require this. Unlike Eritrea, however, the US can enforce this on foreign banks, which are required to report your personal economic activity to the US. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Account_Tax_Compliance_Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Account_Tax_Compliance... There is more. A lot more. It makes me nervous when people focus on Trump as a particularly evil anomaly that must be removed at all costs, and then everything can go back to normal. "Normal" is terrifying to me. The virtue of Trump is that people are paying attention, at least: it's difficult for the government to arrogate more powers when people are paying attention. I hope that the outrage against Trump continues when the next Democrat gets in, and all of this creeping authoritarianism will get rolled back. But, I also suspect that's a delusional fantasy.