>>They imagine doors getting kicked in, social chaos, constant warring gangs or warlords, that kind of thing.<<

Oh, America has those too, just limited enough that most people can ignore it. Door kicking is routine with white police on people of color. Some cities have serious gang problems. Increasingly as the Growth Ponzi Scheme progresses, cities are failing to keep the lights and water running. And so on.

>>This is America and we love freedom, the government wouldn't just scoop someone off the street and bundle them out of the country for no reason. There must be a reason.<<

Of course there's a reason, and it's usually that the government doesn't like what someone is doing. That might be a crime like murder, but it also might be protesting the government's lawbreaking or environmental destruction. That's the part people don't think about.

>> -Milton Mayer, They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45<<

I think he's also the one who pointed out that there was no time to fight back, because people's time and energy was all tied up with newly demanded paperwork. That sounds familiar too.

>>I wrote after the 2016 that we were in the final days of the Republic, it would just take some time for the country to die. Maybe we'll find a miracle cure, but I suspect not.<<

Yyyyeah. Not good.

>> Appropriate ("appropriate") that this all happened on Pesaḥ, the holiday where as part of the Seder we repeatedly say "Once we were slaves, but now we are free." <<

At the present moment, the tyranny likes Jews, and prefers to pick on other people; but that could change at any moment.