The US is has laid down the infrastructure for modern fascist controls since 9/11’s Patriot Act
Even that was more a modernization and overhaul of the War on Drugs. And the drug war was a rebranding of Jim Crow. Which was a way to retrofit state law to reimplement slavery. Etc. Etc.
Certain cities and states wax and wane as opportunity and financing permit. But this tends to follow economic allowances as much as anything. Consider the UK police state, which is crumbling in no small part because the country is going broke.
Even that was more a modernization and overhaul of the War on Drugs. And the drug war was a rebranding of Jim Crow. Which was a way to retrofit state law to reimplement slavery. Etc. Etc.
Certain cities and states wax and wane as opportunity and financing permit. But this tends to follow economic allowances as much as anything. Consider the UK police state, which is crumbling in no small part because the country is going broke.