Many rights tend to "erode" during times of great uncertainty. It is not historically based on party. I'm speaking principally of the various acts meant to curb terrorist activities.
The Japanese internment camps were formed by Roosevelt's executive order during WW II, not the act of the a Democrat or a Republican but the result of a situation.
How about the Red Scare? Democrat Woodrow Wilson's evil attorney general really got us going there.
There are many more examples.
I think history shows that such acts tend to be the reaction to a situation and not some evil party politics.
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