I think I read it with a sense of alarm fatigue, if that makes sense. The government has been doing extrajudicial killings of leftist leaders internationally an

I think I read it with a sense of alarm fatigue, if that makes sense. The government has been doing extrajudicial killings of leftist leaders internationally and internally for a long time, so in socialist circles you tend to hear these stories regularly. Folks like Fred Hampton (and COINTELPRO generally), and Martin Luther King, Jr, (who the FBI wiretapped and then sent a letter demanding he commit suicide). And international cases like Operation PB Fortune, which overthrew democracy at the behest of fruit companies. And we can reach further back to cases like the Haymarket Affair, Blair Mountain, the internment of us citizens into concentration camps during WW2, etc. So... Am I alarmed? Yes, but have I been alarmed for a long time? Also yes.