This is a chilling portent of our future here in the US.
We used to marvel at the thought control madness that overtook Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union and say that could never happen here.
It has been happening here since 2009.
I would say since the sixties!
The thing that we ought to marvel about in terms of Nazi Germany wasn't persecution per se, but the lack of persecution in many areas of German society. Nazism got a thorough and complete grip over German society in a very short period of time because so many institutions -- including many that should damn well have known better -- were thoroughly accommodating without much of a threat at all. In fact, I would speculate that medical profession, academia, and even most religious leaders in Germany had sold out to the state long before the Nazis were even in power.
Persecution doesn't scare me. What really scares me is outright capitulation by people, leaders and institutions long before they're even facing a threat of persecution.
I have been consciously aware of the process since the 1970’s. A hell of a lot of preparatory conditioning was done in the form of PC that made what is happing now possible.