My greatest concern was realized a long time ago - when the IRS targeted Conservative groups and the FBI participated, with the Democrat party, in the attempted coup of a legitimately-elected President.
As usual you go with the orthodoxy of the Party, but never bother to follow up with actual developments, which of course the Party is content to ignore...
The fact is that the Treasury Dept IG released a report in Oct 2017 which basically refuted the claims that "Conservative groups" were exclusively targeted, when it came to IRS scrutiny of 501-C groups applying for tax exempt status. What they discovered that the screening applied just as much to "liberal groups", or in fact any organization using particular keywords...
"What is new now? The original claim was that the filters that the IRS's tax-exempt organizations unit had used were biased against right-wing groups. Now, it turns out that even that was not true.
In addition to keywords like "tea party," the unit was also looking for words like "occupy," "progressive," and "green energy."
Actually, that information is not new. We have known for years that the IRS was using both left- and right-oriented search terms, but this report provides exhaustive documentation of that fact."
Neil Buchanan writes that Trump's dishonesty is a continuation of a strategy of lying Republicans have been honing for years.
www.newsweek.com
It wasn't political ideology the IRS was "searching for". It was groups engaged in political activity who were trying to claim the 501-C exemption. Both on the Left and the Right...