even if this is baloney -- and it's probably not entirely baloney even if it is partly baloney -- domestic police are probably about as ready to implement various degrees of oppression as ever. And who better to initiate it than a politician from...Chicago -- a messianic one, at that.
What's freaky about the idea is that even if it's purely paranoia, it's so plausible and possible that it reducess the marginalization normally associated with the paranoid.