Commentary
When the IRS targeted Tea Party groups during the Obama years, and no one paid a serious price for it, it was both a harbinger of and contributor to the more pervasive and extreme weaponization of the federal government against dissenters from its orthodoxy that was to come.
Today, a decade after IRS officials admitted to those depredations, and with the weaponization having grown so vast and dangerous that congress has devoted an entire subcommittee to it, nevertheless the taxman’s targeting of Wrongthinkers would seem to be continuing apace.
Just ask Matt Taibbi.
On March 9, the very day the iconoclastic journalist appeared before the House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government to testify about the Twitter Files, an IRS agent appeared at his home….