Back Door Scofflaw

"Inverted totalitarianism," as he calls it in his recent Democracy Incorporated, "lies in wielding total power without appearing to, without establishing concentration camps, or enforcing ideological uniformity, or forcibly suppressing dissident elements so long as they remain ineffectual." To Wolin, such a form of political power makes the United States "the showcase of how democracy can be managed without appearing to be suppressed."

American Scofflaw
In the old USSR, they called it the Sausage Effect. You take over countries geopolitically one at a time while slowly, incrementally imposing internal fascism one law at a time under the guise of betterment. The gullible fall for it and the gullible and jingoistic enforce it. It's also called Friendly Fascism. One day you wake up--no more freedom, period.