Is it new that a government would undermine its own charter and work against the very people it is charged with serving? Is this the first time a government has deliberately divided its own citizens? Has it never happened before that tyrants and scoundrels in government found opportunity in running the whole thing to their own advantage?
Of course not!
What you’re seeing, friends, is nothing new. It is standard tyranny of the typical sort that has been going on as long as there has been government.
What (almost) nobody wants to believe about it is that his own party is complicit in keeping the fraud running—in keeping up appearances that they’re really fighting for change, and are apt to make some good progress in the next election cycle. Millions are suckers for this, and are duped by it regularly.