The political class wants to demoralize opponents, disenfranchise citizens, and demonstrate power.
Elon Musk said the following on a recent episode of the Joe Rogan podcast:
[George Soros] had a very difficult upbringing, and, in my opinion, he fundamentally hates humanity … He’s doing things that erode the fabric of civilization … Soros realized that you don’t actually need to change the laws; you just need to change how they’re enforced. If nobody chooses to enforce the law or the laws are differentially enforced, it’s like changing the laws.
This is crucial and explains why much of what the political class does appears so gratuitously provocative.
