> Normal authoritarian state behavior, no?

Yes.

And the most surprising thing about this particular story to me is that a lot of people (here in the comments) seem surprised about it.

I don't mean to normalize this, because it isn't normal, but anyone surprised by this hasn't been paying attention over the past year+, this didn't arrive out of the blue.

It's like people are "oh I thought Project 2025 was just a meme, lol"