If you think all that's happening is stressful, try being married to someone who has spent her career studying the rise of authoritarian governments and the resulting humanitarian disasters.

I told her about the masked ICE abduction of the Tufts student (she got her first Master's from the Fletcher school there) and she said we might not be coming back from our May trip to Europe. (To be clear, we have a citizenship application pending, not an intention to overstay a visa).

I have to say, it bears a lot of similarities to the stories I heard from my first wife's family about living in Iran under the Shah. Savak was doing very similar things.