People friendly with the regime are in no way safe from being punished by the regime. That’s exactly the outcome of tearing down due process.

This type of person thinks it will be fine because they didn’t do anything wrong, even when they’re watching people who didn’t do anything wrong suffer or die. It comes from growing up in an environment that has a lot of justice and fairness, and so you think it’s built into the world somehow, like gravity. It isn’t.