internal police state...

zack supported the police and intelligence agencies that aspired not only to defeat the left but also to make anti-radicalism into “a litmus test for entry into American politics.”...Zack took his cue from the early 20th century treatment of radicals.punishment without trial, rendition, demonization of immigrants, racial profiling, left baiting and invasion of privacy—shaped by events in the 1910s and 1920s when for the first time the government orchestrated and led campaigns to limit political dissent, whipped up right-wing populism and justified suspension of the Constitution in the name of national security.