Oh yes.
And there I was thinking this could never happen in America when I read Orwell as a kid.
Little did I know.
Yep, I read “1984” and “Animal Farm” in, I think, 11th grade which was ‘67-’68. We read those books and laughed — “This is preposterous, so stupid. Nothing like that could ever happen in the USA.”
Yes, little did we know.