Every country on Earth is held together by a violent regime. That’s why every single one has a military, security forces, policemen and prison guards.
If they didn’t have them there’d be no way for them to take your money and property away from you or enforce their insane policies that strip citizens of their rights.
They could all be like take the photos so that people can learn to fear & tremble before us
The fact that they are afraid of having their human rights violations documented suggests they fear retribution
In the past when overlords violated human rights they wanted to make a public spectacle so everyone could see it and fear them
Something has to exist in order for the question to be thought of in the first place
It's disingenuous to say Trump was a life-long Democrat. While I do agree that his policies would align more with a Democrat from the 90s than a modern Republican, I think it's more likely he was just taking the opposite party from the incumbent.
Well, maybe he was a lifelong Democrat, at heart. But that's certainly not what he was registered as.