Democrats Drop the Mask: From “Conspiracy Theory” to Open Warfare

Susan Rice, a former top Biden White House adviser, is openly warning that Democrats will pursue “revenge” and an “accountability agenda” against elites—corporations, law firms, universities, and media—who “take a knee to Trump,” adding that Democrats won’t “play by the old rules.” (Axios)

Why it matters:

For years, ordinary Americans were told their concerns about politicized institutions were paranoia—“just process,” “no evidence,” “conspiracy theory.” Now the rhetoric has shifted from denial to retaliation, and it lands differently because it comes after a long paper trail of coercion, coordination, and deniable pressure.

The evidence trail critics called “nothing”

1) Russia-collusion machinery and the transition-paper trail

• The FBI’s Trump–Russia counterintelligence probe (“Crossfire Hurricane”) began July 31, 2016, and later flowed into the Special Counsel appointment in May 2017—the pipeline that drove years of investigations and headlines. (Department of Justice)

• Separately, there is a documented January 5, 2017 Oval Office meeting involving President Obama and senior officials, later memorialized in Susan Rice’s email/memo—one of the key transition-era documents at the heart of the dispute over how the Russia matter was handled as power changed hands. (Obama Library)

2) Speech pressure on Big Tech
Mark Zuckerberg said the Biden administration pressured Meta to suppress certain COVID-related content and that he regrets not pushing back more.

3) Parents and school boards
The “domestic terrorism” school-board episode didn’t come from nowhere; it was preceded by a national school boards group asking the White House for help, then escalated into federal posture and oversight battles over coordination and chilling effects on parents. (The American Presidency Project)

4) Visibility throttling (Twitter/X)
Reporting on the “Twitter Files” alleged behind-the-scenes “visibility filtering”/blacklist-style mechanisms—precisely the kind of soft power that creates plausible deniability: speech isn’t banned, it’s buried.

The pivot

When critics dismiss everything as “process errors,” they’re asking the public to ignore how modern coercion works: pressure without fingerprints. That’s why Rice’s vow of revenge isn’t heard as a harmless vent—it reads as a promise to weaponize the same institutional levers more openly next time.

Faith Check

Scripture warns that revenge is a boomerang—digging traps destroys the trap-setter first:

“Whoever digs a pit will fall into it, and a stone will come back on him who starts it rolling.” — Proverbs 26:27

Bottom line:
This isn’t “both sides.” The claim here is that one political coalition spent years denying any coordinated intent—then, once the receipts accumulated, moved from denial to a public warning: we’re done forgiving; we’re coming for you.