With a buffoonish Republican president seemingly determined to start a disastrous war in the Middle East, you could be forgiven for thinking it’s the halcyon days of the 2000s again. But if the history of the Bush years is bound to be repeated, let’s make sure the onslaught against anti-war dissent isn’t.

Though it’s been in vogue for the past three years to insist there has never been a president as dangerous as Trump in the White House, the 2000s beg to disagree. Not only did Bush and his team significantly accelerate the current authoritarian direction of US domestic policy and set in motion just about every subsequent crisis of foreign policy, but they did it backed up by a rabidly martial, jingoistic atmosphere that silenced, ridiculed, or attacked critical voices.

Today, the early post-September 11 years are a chilling reminder of just how swiftly dissent and basic freedoms can be smothered in the drive to war, not just by an aggressive government, but by the private sector.