People on this site need to get over their naive belief that there are any limits at all to what Trump and his cronies

[Crunchy Frog]

are capable of. We need to look at the worst regimes in history and realize that these people seek to emulate the worst aspects of them. And there's very little left in the way of institutions or safeguards that are going to stop them.

Engineering assassinations to create martyrs, whip people up into a murderous frenzy, and create pretexts for mass repression and political violence, are all par for the course, and many, many historical examples can be found. Don't keep holding on to the idea that "it can't happen here".