I like the part where anyone thinks that western leaders are going to be dissuaded from implementing totalitarian restrictions on civil liberties and freedoms b

I like the part where anyone thinks that western leaders are going to be dissuaded from implementing totalitarian restrictions on civil liberties and freedoms by comparing them to "the bad guys." These people didn't get where they are by listening to popular sentiment or upholding integrity and ethics in modern political liberalism. They got there because they were willing to work with their country's "deep state," and what the deep state wants, the deep state gets.