" were once careful to monitor FBI and CIA abuses, they now rationalize them. Both institutions, as is perhaps reminiscent of the New Deal era, see government power as a positive, a means of bypassing obstructive opposition to progressive agendas. If some citizens, such as Carter Page, must be surveilled, even if illegally and unethically, or if a rambunctious and wayward general like Michael Flynn should be kept out of government and be reverse-targeted by the government surveillance of those with whom he spoke, then the liberal media assumes that such troublemakers should not have raised "

― Victor Davis Hanson , The Dying Citizen: How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea of America