It's now MAGA to be in favor of warrantless government spying on American citizens

Why? Because Trump changed his mind and said so!

When Donald Trump was running for a second presidential term in 2024, he came out strongly in favor of ditching the federal government’s claim that it has the right to easedrop electronically on basically anyone it wants, without so much as going before a judge and getting a warrant.

This was an audacious claim that had absolutely no precedent in the history of American jurisprudence, or in the common law, but it was created out of thin air after the 9/11 attacks in the form of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA).

This legislation, approved by Congress as a “temporary” measure in a time of alleged national emergency, has always been anathema to traditional conservatives, and even a fair number of Democrats and independents, so Trump was singing to the choir when he said in 2024 that he would abolish FISA.

“KILL FISA,” he wrote in his typical all-caps style on Truth Social. “IT WAS ILLEGALLY USED AGAINST ME, AND MANY OTHERS.”

Now, the dreaded Section 702 of FISA is up once ag…