BREAKING: Democratic star Congressman Adam Schiff shreds the failed MAGA administration for creating a "climate of fear" as Donald Trump's fascist policies multiply and the world economy crumbles due to pointless tariffs.

This is a takedown for the ages...

"We've come to realize much to our shock that there's nothing inevitable about this, there's nothing inevitable about democracy or democratization," Schiff said during a Congressional "shadow" hearing on Trump's attack on the rule of law.

Among those to testify was Elizabeth G. Oyer, a former U.S. pardon attorney who was terminated after she opposed the restoration of gun rights to convicted domestic abuser Mel Gibson.

"That this experiment in this country, this great experiment, self-governance, now two and half centuries old is not inevitable," Schiff continued. "It was improbably at its start."

"And we've witnessed something we never would have imagined in this country. We have witnessed with incredible rapidity the creation of a climate of fear by this administration," said Schiff.

"We see universities afraid to speak out to defend their own students, to defend their own academic freedom," he went on. "You see universities rushing to make deals with the administration. You see universities cowed into silence, not stepping up to defend other universities."

"You see members of the press excluded from public events because they don’t use the administration’s favored parlance and you don’t see other members of the press standing in solidarity with them," said Schiff.

"You see law firms rush to cut separate deals," he said. "You see lawyers purged from the Department of Justice," he continued. "You see FBI agents purged from the Bureau. You see scientists purged from their agencies."

"A wholesale effort to weed out and drive out anyone of independent thinking, anyone who will stand up and defend the rule of law, or science, or the freedom of thought or expression, right down to ordinary citizens who are now afraid," said Schiff.

"If the government of the United States can pluck a man off the street and send him to a prison in El Salvador without any kind of due process or any process whatsoever, then no one is safe," he said.

"And if the government's response to that is to discipline a lawyer who dares to speak the truth to a court, then no one is safe," he went on.

"And the answer to this climate of fear, there really is only one answer and you're seeing it today and that is courage," he continued.

"We must demonstrate courage in the face of this fear. In this very committee room or one like it, Joseph McCarthy and his allies made the country afraid and caused people to inform on each other and betray each other, allowed people to be driven out of the government and to be persecuted and we wondered how that could be," said Schiff.

"We wondered how could so many people be complicit. Well now we know. Now, we have witnessed it in our own time," he went on.

"But I will say this of the brave witnesses who have come and testified today. All the rest of us have to ask ourselves — looking back at the McCarthy era — what would we have done?" said Schiff. "What would we have done if were faced with the loss of our jobs, if we were faced with the loss of our livelihood? If we were faced with the loss of our position, what would we have done?"

"Well, you don't have to ask that question. Your being here is all the answer anyone could demand and we are deeply, deeply grateful to you," he added.