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You're asking when did this happen: "the left dismantling the shadow right"

here, when the IRS under Obama discriminated against conservative and Christian groups for applications for tax exempt status

> The consent order says the IRS admits it wrongly used "heightened scrutiny and inordinate delays" and demanded unnecessary information as it reviewed applications for tax-exempt status. The order says, "For such treatment, the IRS expresses its sincere apology."

https://www.npr.org/2017/10/27/560308997/irs-apologizes-for-...

Is that specific enough for you?

  In late September 2017, an exhaustive report by the Treasury Department's inspector general found that from 2004 to 2013, the IRS used both conservative and liberal keywords to choose targets for further scrutiny, blunting claims that the issue had been an Obama-era partisan scandal.[1][2] The 115-page report confirmed the findings of the prior 2013 report that some conservative organizations had been unfairly targeted, but also found that the pattern of misconduct had been ongoing since 2004 and was non-partisan in nature.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRS_targeting_controversy#:~:t...

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