I do like getting my arguments vetted on this site! Thanks. These arguments aren't really sequential; maybe only one is true. Maybe for three different people,

I do like getting my arguments vetted on this site! Thanks. These arguments aren't really sequential; maybe only one is true. Maybe for three different people, each argument is true for one of 'em. So, I don't think the connections you made in my argument are really what I meant. The more I think about it, it's very possible that the kinds of freedoms that were restricted because of WWII and the Cold War normalized the idea of restricting freedoms in defense of a certain ideology. After all, what looks better in historical hindsight: the ACLU in Skokie or Japanese internment? I have a feeling that pinpointing a singular cause is impossible, if there even is a singular cause. Still worth discussing, but good to have the discussion framed with that in mind.