Well it's more initially as a response to the internet (as an uncontrolled media landscape) and so-called "hybrid warfare" -- but it was deployed against trump,

Well it's more initially as a response to the internet (as an uncontrolled media landscape) and so-called "hybrid warfare" -- but it was deployed against trump, and increasingly so-called "far-right populism" against which it was "necessary" to deploy the full resources of the executive to "preserve democracy" (claims I don't entirely disagree with, but tactics which are nevertheless unconstitutional). Consider that Wikipedia lists the Biden connection to ukraine as a "conspiracy theory" but the trump connection to Russia as "Links between Trump associates and Russian officials" (there is no Trump connection to Russia, this was an invention of the security services; and there are as many "Links" between Biden associates and Ukraine -- but, as with trump, there is no Joe Biden-Ukraine link).