Authoritarian will not show up all at once. It builds up, like what we are seeing today.

In 1933 came rallies, book burnings, and the first camps; in 1935, laws that sorted who “belonged.”

Years of propaganda and policy made harsher measures thinkable.

Today’s stepped-up aggressive and deadly ICE raids repeat early patterns from history: delegitimize critics, cast “outsiders” as threat, then normalize force at the neighborhood level.

The guardrail is the rule of law… due process, counsel, and public oversight.

We hold the line by insisting on rights for everyone, documenting encounters, and resisting the slide from policy to persecution.