We are in deep doo-doo and there may be no going back.
The scariest scene in any movie, for me, is the first 15 minutes of Inglorious Basterds. You really can’t hide, if they really want you, no matter where you live.
I believe we have been in a surveillance state for a long, long time. Even before the internet.
We made their jobs easy as now there are digital footprints for most people that companies, like Google, are happily finding and collecting, then turning over to the intelligence community while monetizing it for themselves.
Trump was not on their radar as he supported many of the Democrats for decades. Nobody took him seriously and they never expected him to run. When he did, they needed to launch an effort to surveil him....and they succeeded, but found nothing.
So, now it is a campaign of innuendo and leaks of anonymous lies. They cannot stop the man, but he will not be enough to change this.
The intelligence community may let him serve his terms and then come back in 2024.