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“I thought the extreme fears of having my family ripped apart from me as a little boy were just exaggerations,” another anonymous vendor wrote to Ktown for All.

At the time, it seemed prophetic but impossible, a bit of artful exaggeration to warn against a dystopian tendency.

“I don't think the average person, when they have the opportunity to hear a nonpartisan account of the rule of law — the situation we're in — I don't think it strikes them as an exaggeration.”

Although the idea of arresting politicians, activists or even everyday folks still seems a surreal bit of exaggeration, it has already happened.

“We cannot give everyone a trial, because to do so would take, without exaggeration, 200 years,” he stated.