In the old USSR, a 10 year sentence was the shocking extreme you could get short of a death penalty.
This modern technique of stacking crimes to create outlandish sentences is un-American.
In 150 years people will be shocked at the police state we endured. And they will pore through the liberated NSA files with astonishment. Its happening with Stasi files now.
Reminds me of an old Soviet joke:
An old man spots a friend he hasn’t seen for a long time and he asks him where he’s been all this time. He says “I’ve in prison for ten years”.
The old guy says “what did you do?”
His friend says “I didn’t do anything- I was innocent “
The old guy says “C’mon - what did really do? Innocent men only get five years”.