The following is satirical — a way of working through what it would mean to actually accept the administration's framing of recent events at face value.
I feel so much safer now that a woman has been labeled a "domestic terrorist" and summarily shot. She opposed this administration's policies, so under the relevant executive order, that apparently qualifies.
I should feel safer knowing that housekeepers, vegetable pickers, meat processors, and roofers are being deported en masse. They're gang members and rapists taking our jobs, right? I suppose I'll take my turn in the lettuce field.
But I'm a law-abiding citizen, so as long as I keep my head down, I'll be fine. Right up until someone decides my having brought a gun into a bar while having a few beers counts as something more sinister. Or that little cash deal I never reported. Or the way I shaded a few numbers on my taxes. Of course, I'd never drive under the influence — but plenty of people who say the same thing do.
According to this administration, the opposing party is responsible for a "mass criminal invasion," importing predators and traffickers and terrorists. But naturally, none of us would ever vote for the other side, right?
Thousands of good people are killed by reckless drivers every year, but I'm a careful driver, so that's someone else's problem.
I feel so much safer now. Right up until it's my door they're breaking down — but it'll be fine, because this is America, and I'll get my day in court. Except habeas corpus protections have been eroded to the point that I could be detained by armed, masked agents with no hearing at all.
This is the logical endpoint of cheering for expanded, unchecked enforcement power: eventually the net widens enough to catch people who thought they'd always be on the safe side of it.