Unmarked Vans. Secret Lists. Public Denunciations. Our Police State Has Arrived

Archive link: [https://archive.is/2025.04.02-101319/https://www.nytimes.com...]

I would say it never left - it was there from the very beginning, see for example [0].

[0] https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/07/20/the-invention-...