"Compare and contrast, for example, the treatment accorded to Andrew McCabe, FBI malefactor and paid-up member of the protected class, with the treatment accorded to someone like John Eastman, a former member of Trump’s legal team, or Jeffrey Clark, a former Justice Department official who thought it worth investigating the many questions that haunt the 2020 presidential election. McCabe tries to foment a coup against the president of the United States and is punished with a gig at CNN. Eastman and Clark become pariahs, have their electronic devices confiscated and, in Clark’s case, find themselves out in the street in their pajamas after a dawn raid by a squad of heavily armed Stasi agents (that’s the American Stasi, also known as the FBI). "