police state

Trump’s language is designed to fracture the civic contract, pit citizens against each other, create the conditions for civil war, and pave the way for a society ruled by fear and a police state.

“This campus has essentially become a police state,” Elisa Pabon, the postdoctoral unit chair for the union, said gesturing to uniformed security guards standing nearby.

“With To Lam’s ascent to the presidency, Vietnam is now a literal police state,” said Swanton, adding that the Vietnamese ruling Politburo was now dominated by current and former security officials.

“It’s about the crackdown on free speech on campuses but it’s also about campuses becoming police states.”

He wrote the book on how to turn a modern country into a repressive autocracy without becoming a full-fledged police state.