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65 members of the house voted no, 62 of them were Democrats: https://justfacts.votesmart.org/bill/votes/8289
The only Senator to vote no was Russ Feingold(D): https://justfacts.votesmart.org/bill/3112/7877/55463/usa-pat...
I can't find hard numbers on how many republicans/dems votes yes or no on it, but it passed 98-1 in the senate, and only 66 no votes in the house. Yes a lot of republicans in congress (probably all of them at the time) voted yes on it, but most democrats voted yes on it too.
And the panic will continue because of that. More people will get banned. It isn't a fallacy to believe these things escalate.
During the Bush era, the opposition to the authoritarian trajectory of the war on terror was largely from liberals, although it was often strictly partisan. Conservative media completely fell in line with the Bush administration. I thought this would change when Obama was elected, but it didn't, and authoritarianism remained a driving force in conservative politics and media throughout Trump's presidency.
COVID-19 has brought some more conservatives onto the anti-authoritarian side for sure. But I'm not confident this is a durable change.
https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_...
Republicans have only recently woken up from this due to the absolute madness coming out of the left.
I was a democrat who voted for Biden and has only donated to democrats though I likely never will again.
His whole post was ridiculous; the GOP has always been just as, if not moreso ready to trade ANYTHING for "security" (security theater mostly), usually if there is a correlating premise of ensuring electoral results in their favor, which they usually beat the Dems over the head with as the "national security" party. With the last half decade of debacles under Trump, the "national security" moniker is arguably up for grabs, but the Dems are half-assed and flailing and the GOP is a viscous joke looking for a punchline (hence why I left the latter to go independent, since the former is a lousy home, even if they aren't a traitorous one).
It might do you some good to go back and look at who supported all of it in the beginning. It certainly was not some right wing only endeavor. There were very few politicians opposed to any of it.