You're right of course. I was ref'ing to a post yesterday wh/ implied that lines were being crossed but people were numb or disinterested, when in fact we all define them for ourselves. In this particular case, which essentially marks the open setting up of a police state, it's impossible to deny.

I do wonder whether this was the outcome of the Trump/Putin bromance in Alaska. Putin may well have made some "suggestions" about what Trump might like to do next, to silence opposition groups and suppress legal forms of protest/demonstrations.

Perhaps, but with Miller, Vance, Loomer & Co right on the doorstep, raring to manufacture catastrophes thus creating 'reasons' to ramp up police/ICE/military presence & curb basic rights, Putin needn't even have thought, let alone mentioned, it...