Federal Enforcement as Local Dictatorship Test

A pattern where national executive branches deploy large federal enforcement contingents into politically oppositional cities to test expanded coercive governance locally before attempting broader national rollouts. Tracking these deployments (numbers, chain of command, rules of engagement, affected population groups) reveals whether episodic operations are tactical policing or deliberate experiments in concentrated authoritarian capacity. — If true, it reframes federal enforcement operations as institutional experiments with democratic consequences, requiring new oversight, reporting, and legal thresholds before using domestic force at scale.