So, to be certain, Xi’s China is a civil liberties horror show.
Has been, for at least the last three decades — and then, for fifty years before about 1960. So it is dishonest for Hinderaker to suggest spying on one’s neighbors occurs here, in 2024 — excepting in ruby red Texas (with its bounty hunters for women leaving the state while pregnant, of course).
And so, Hinderaker well knows we here in the US are “freer” under Mr. Biden than we were under Tangerine. Especially individual civil liberties (think family planning / contraception, which Tangerine recently said he’d like to end as a federal health coverage item).
That is, excepting large coal companies owners being freed to pollute wildly, and oil companies — drilling, in federal protected habitats.
Yes, John — billionaires were freer to pollute — under Trumpie. But that’s it.
What a yutz. Damn.
Onward.