It's kind of odd thinking of how soon we'll start getting into the game of political prisoners here in the West. For instance, had Michael Flynn gone to jail, he arguably would have been a political prisoner based on the information we now know about his frame. Same thing with Carter Page.
Should Trump get convicted of any offenses by the southern district of new york or the Georgia attorney General, it is likely that those will be political prosecutions of the "show me the man, I'll find the crime" type. But that is certainly more arguable.
The rhetoric on the left seems to indicate an eagerness to classify Trump supporters as criminals. Rally attendees are lumped in with violent agitators. Protest participation seems to be prosecuted in very one sided ways. "Our violence is speech, your speech is violence," is a famous meme here.
Here's another step in this road in Canada. The Trudeau government has charged Rebel media for election interference for publishing a negative book about the Liberal Government, despite the law that makes book publishing clearly exempt if it would have been published regardless of an election.
I hate to say it, but I think keeping tabs of the number of political prisoners in the States and what organizations like Amnesty International will do about it, is a very likely outcome of an unfettered, morally certain, uni-party establishment. I have to admit, the idea of this surprises me quite a bit. Civil war I could see, but political prisoners.... I must have been naive
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