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Cohen claims DOJ weaponization is underappreciated damage with long-term ramifications beyond war and ICE
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Platner Is OUT — Here’s What Dems Should Do to Avoid DISASTER (ft. Brian Tyler Cohen)
"I think just the idea of what the DOJ, like what he's done with the DOJ. I don't know that everybody's really fully grasped what it looks like to have a fully weaponized Department of Justice that does not go after anybody who is politically aligned with this president or his political party. That's the plotting bureaucracy of our law enforcement agency that's going to have such deep impacts. That is the kind of thing that's going to have a really long tail and may not be as sexy as like war in Iran or ICE agents shooting and killing somebody in the street, but it's going to have long-term ramifications."
Cohen argued that Trump's weaponization of the DOJ represents underappreciated institutional damage with longer-term consequences than more visible crises. He described a system where the federal government's resources are used to destroy Democratic infrastructure and chill free speech through the FCC, turning opposition figures into warnings. Cohen compared it to media consolidation at CBS and CNN as damage that may be impossible to unwind.
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