…of the ability of the state at all levels to unify militarily and violate constitutional rights en masse, supported by state media and massive weaponry.   The breathlessness and tenor of the mainstream reporting is particularly agitprop.  A decade of unnecessary war and occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan and two decades since the Waco murders were nationally “celebrated” make statist sense now.   Thanks, Anthony, for your great work on this, it’s certainly timely today.