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Going down that road will lead to the party in the majority arresting, charging, and jailing their opposition every time the balance of power shifts and that is a very direct route to becoming a banana republic.
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If the party in power is effective enough in arresting and jailing their opposition, there won't be a shift in the balance of power, short of a successful armed uprising forcing them out of power. We have names for those kinds of regimes, one of those names is dictatorship.
Today language is frequently compressed into "sound bites" and simple phrases to describe complex issues, and many people jump straight to the extremes in their rhetoric, but none of that changes the fact that the law, as passed, IS the LAW, we must obey until/unless a court rules it is not.
And the courts take these things one step at a time, and invalidation of one specific law only affects THAT specific law, and other laws doing essentially the same thing may be in full force until they fail to pass judicial review.