I am aware that this was also happening in previous administrations and is slowly getting worse, but as a European I can only describe this as "communist-like",

I am aware that this was also happening in previous administrations and is slowly getting worse, but as a European I can only describe this as "communist-like", and wonder what the US citizenry, of all people, have come to that they accept such things? (Clearly this not some form of elaborate investigation, and they're only harrassing random passengers.) We are now in a Bizzaro world where we're safer "in our letters and effects" when travelling through the airports of Communist-controlled China than in the US ones...