Week by week and step by step, Mr. Trump is creating his own list of “subversive” organizations and persons.

You don’t have to be America’s chief executive in order to have the power to try to violate a citizen’s rights. You can be a career bureaucrat and do it behind a veil of secrecy, believing that your actions will never see the light of day.

George Orwell, one of the most well-known antifascists of the last century, is undoubtedly rolling over in his grave right now.