The Hallmarks of a Totalitarian State are:

 The hallmarks of a totalitarian state are:

• The formal criminalization of dissent /political prosecutions.
• State control media /propaganda narratives.
• Censorship of free speech.
• Rigged Elections
• Erasing or rewriting history.
• Rise of the Police State.
• Academia/cultural Ideological Indoctrination to divide and foment revolution.
• Destroy economy to create crisis to implement socialism.
• Politicizing the civil service, military, National Guard, and domestic security agencies.
• Rise of the surveillance state and utilizing it to punish your political enemies.
• Stacking the Supreme Court or law of the land.

“The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism.  But, under the name of ‘liberalism,’ they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.”

—Norman Thomas