Simply a state of the nonsensical.
And congress sits idly by.
Aren't the elected representatives, by the people, for the people, supposed to be safeguarding the rights of all citizens of the USA from bull excrement like this?
Why do they allow this spectacle to continue?
As lesson to us all.
This has been before from a political party that sent out secret police and goons to harass, intimidate, arrest, and imprison, their opponents and detractors.
Get on board the ship or get on board the train.
Those are your two options.
They don't always take your freedom...sometimes they simply create an environment that causes the masses to beg for their freedom to be taken away, for their "safety".