While politics has always been a scrappy arena, the arrival of Donald Trump radicalized Democrats and brought them to a level of derangement few could have predicted. Though it may have begun as a top-secret project involving only a handful of officials at the loftiest levels of the Obama administration, the FBI’s 2016 mission to destroy then-presidential candidate Trump has since metastasized into the Democratic Party’s open war against him.

Under the Biden administration, the scope of this war has expanded beyond the former president himself; it now includes anyone who supports Trump. President Joe Biden made that quite clear when he gave a speech denouncing so-called “MAGA Republicans” as “semi-fascists.”