Why the left should be worried by Marjorie Taylor Greene's 'defund the FBI' crusade.
wants to muzzle Trump and keep him out of power. Their critique is not of the FBI’s abuse of its own power, but that its purview can interfere with the authoritarian project because it has some commitments to lawful liberal democracy and operates semi-independently of executive power.
And that has bearing on why a left-right alliance on “defund the FBI” wouldn't work. If the left developed a program under a defund banner, it might entail less funding, more robust oversight, and limiting FBI powers to surveil and intervene in political life.
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