I think frightening is a more appropriate way of phrasing it.
Other than a spate of hyperbolic headlines what exactly "frightens" you? BTW TIPS will not be implemented good idea or bad.
It is interesting to watch how a country can go from a democracy, more or less, to the fringe of a facist state. All of the apparatus is being put into place. We will await the person who puts it all together for us. Perhaps, it will be the Hildebeast?