This is the real dynamic. Trump’s rivals, of course, get threats — but also: allies seen as disloyal, whistleblowers, witnesses, victims, journalists.

So many now get death threats from MAGA brownshirts. And there’s a noose & an insurrection that says they’re serious. https://twitter.com/danielsgoldman/status/1360963238427578372

Schiff has said that his GOP colleagues know Trump is dangerous but can’t cross him for fear of a mention on Hannity. That is both (a) profound cowardice and (b) a reality. It is very, very demoralizing & frightening to endure the death-threat pileon from even one mention on Fox.

Even if the brownshirt campaign is minor—we’re not talking Pelosi-level—& you have nerves of steel, there’s the relentless insults, the rape & torture imagery, the doxing, the threats to kids, the *credible* threats that require police, the attacks on your livelihood.

I faced a MAGA intimidation campaign this week. It was far from nuclear (like those directed at AOC, Pelosi) but it wasn’t a few tweets either. It’s bonechilling. These things can easily defeat your will to speak up, or to live.

It’s hard to describe — you’re being stalked, bullied, hacked, ritually humiliated, defamed & physically threatened around the clock.

Everything that hits hardest—rape, lynching and Holocaust imagery are pervasive—is used to spike your panic.

Everyone is semi-aware that this could happen to them.

And that constant threat determines behavior.