it's crazy how much of the current regime's position is "crime is legal if it's my guys doing it."
Edit: I do not mean it cynically or as a joke. I think that is exactly what conservative position was for years. The only difference now is that it is not possible to euphemism away or plausible deniality away out of it.
The MAGA movement has completely purged all the conservatives from the Republican party.
They've increased the deficit by a trillion dollars, built an army of ICE agents and deployed them to terrorize people in cities around the country, added billions of dollars in import taxes, taken state ownership stakes in multiple companies.
They're closer to Stalin or Mao than to any conservative ideology of a small government that stays out of people's business.