Police everywhere in the US have done it for a while, many people were beaten in 2020 by police wearing masks with their badge numbers covered, even in Democrat “sanctuary cities”. Not to mention DHS and BORTAC agents which have been detaining people with masks and no identification as well. People talk about defunding ICE which needs to happen but there are several agencies waging this campaign.

One of the foundational inspirations for modern white supremacists/right wingers is the book the Turner Diaries in which there is a day, the ‘Day of the Rope’, where the right wing has an outpouring of massacres against leftists, afterwards cementing their hold on the US as a fascist ethno-state. Several anti-government/racist terror attacks have explicitly had the goal of starting this.

The Trump administration is doing everything they can do inspire this, or to inspire a mass antifascist uprising so they can imprison their opposition. I believe they would fail at crushing a wide-spread insurgency though because most people don’t actually like Nazis, and average people are getting tired of this shit.