Citizen suspicion of government can trigger government suspicion of citizens.

Evidence

If Russiagate is an example of citizens’ deep suspicion toward their government, it also prompted concern that it could lead to the reverse: the government’s suspicion of its citizens, which has resulted in some of the darkest periods in American history. A mania for ferreting out secret domestic enemies brought us McCarthysim and the life-ruining inquisitions of the House Un-American Activities Committee, and thousands of Japanese Americans being imprisoned in internment camps during the latter days of the Second World War. — Anna Merlan, Republic of Lies, 959

Categorization

• XREF: The mirroring of suspicion between citizens and state connects to the feedback loops of distrust explored across the whole book. — connects to: As citizens become more legible, the monitoring institutions themselves grow opaque. — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 391; Governments seek predictive algorithms scoring citizens’ radicalness like credit scores. — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1232; A government can manufacture crisis to construct its own people as enemy — , The Braided Reading EPUB: 5-Year…, 111 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Power holders can deliberately manufacture distrust conditions to secure control #expands (0.85)
• A government can manufacture crisis to construct its own people as enemy #expands (0.82) — , The Braided Reading EPUB, 111
• States manufacture paranoia so the public welcomes the very power that created the anxiety #expands (0.82)