So much focus on the idea that the ICE crackdown is a distraction from the Epstein files makes me wonder if it isn’t the other way around-get people to focus on the idea of a cover up that they don’t resist a fascist takeover as effectively as they otherwise might.
They get to that level of wealth and power by a compulsive need to one-up each other…
Which means they’re gonna do horrible shit just to be the one who’s done the worst shit.
Let that cycle spin for a couple decades, and shit gets ugly