The crackdown is not just about tackling public disaffection or raising internal morale.

The result will be a dangerous incongruence between 'normal' people and 'abnormal' political militants, which will only increase public disaffection with politics.

It was the latest expression in Kenya of increasingly widespread public disaffection with the coalition government of President Mwai Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga.

The biggest social expression of the resulting public disaffection was 15-M, a movement whose main message was the rejection of the political and economic elite.

Democrats believe he could oust Perdue, partly as a result of public disaffection for Trump's response to the COVID-19 pandemic that has hit Georgia hard.