Germany seems to be moving in the other direction. I assume they can do this because unlike the US, Germans can point to their own history with secret police an

Germany seems to be moving in the other direction. I assume they can do this because unlike the US, Germans can point to their own history with secret police and authoritarian states as cautionary tales. Not that other countries couldn't also look to Germany's example, but that would require trans-national empathy so LOLno.