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A slippery slope I think describes it pretty well.

Right now it's an unflattering opinion of the current administration, being penalized without regard for the combined precedent of all previous administrations.

The kind of precedent that was within reach of all other US presidents from all parties continuously both before & after the Statue of Liberty got here, otherwise there wouldn't have been enough respect built in Europe for Liberty to be erected to begin with. It was obviously supposed to be a permanent icon representing the never-ending March of Freedom & Democracy, and only a real bozo could screw that up.

Yup, only an anti-American effort of some kind could drop the ball on that, and it's no accident.

What does it take before the same penalty applies for "lack of verifiable enthusiastic support of the current regime"?

Or "failure to make financial contributions to the party"?

Or even "providing insufficient information on associates who may not enthusiastically support the regime"?