When you act as the armed enforcement wing of the installed power, by all outward appearances and behavior, you get push back.

Imagine, if you will, 30 FBI agents raiding the Chappaqua house of Hillary Clinton just to collect documents that she kept at home. Think the left wing establishment would be keeping their cool? Or would you see riots protests in the streets, and rhetoric much worse than that all over Twitter, with nary a suspension or ban in sight?

When you act as the armed enforcement wing of the installed power, by all outward appearances and behavior, you get push back.