Trump, taking a page from the playbook of his dictator friends, wants to silence and punish
his critics by taking away their security clearances.
"This is what totalitarianism looks like." 
Trump, citing politics, looking to revoke security clearances
https://www.cnn.com/...nces/index.html
Such a move would amount to an unprecedented use of presidential authority to punish political rivals. Critics quickly seized on the announcement, even as those under consideration downplayed the actual effect losing their clearances might have.
"The idea that a president or a White House would single out individuals from a past administration who have been critical and revoke their clearances is not something we have ever seen before. It's not entirely clear how it could be performed," he said. "It undermines the integrity and the neutrality of security policy which is not based on political considerations but on professional character. That system would be undermined if it became a tool for settling political scores."
Trump's reaction to his critics "is what totalitarianism looks like," Democratic Senator Mazie Hirono wrote on Twitter.
And still, right here on this forum, we have folks who idolize the Orange Menace.
One has to think they are either woefully misinformed, working for the Russians,
or so blinded by all things democratic that they purposefully oppose our American 
values for selfish purposes.
