Yes, answers Diana West, in this interview. If she’s right—and I don’t see how we can avoid drawing that conclusion and preparing for the worst—then by posting this I’ve all but sealed my liberty’s doom, for the surveillance state can easily find subjects like me who qualify for the “formal deprogramming” of “cultists” that Hillary recently recommended.
If you don’t yet know who Diana West is, please consider a couple of posts from 2020:
Hard for me to believe, but her eye-opening (and engagingly written) American Betrayal is now ten years old. Events of the past decade conform to the pattern she describes in that book. 
Thanks for the links, Tony, but I would have preferred to hear YOUR reasons why we are now a police state.
And who the hell has 45 minutes to spare on some slow-moving video??
Suggestion: since you know her schtick inside and out, summarize her main reasons why we are now a police state.
You’re welcome, Bill, but to meet your preference would have cost me more time than I could spare, so I took the lazy way out and posted a video. Don’t know the answer to your question. Tony