They don’t need to target everyone, just the people with the aptitude and inclination for leadership and organization.
The goal wouldn’t be to arrest everyone who doesn’t like them, just to prevent that anger from leading to the creation of a real political opposition movement.
Take a list of everyone who opposes them.
Sort by strength of opposition.
Use every tool of intelligence gathering to comb over each person’s life looking for crimes to charge them with.
Store opposition in prison until power is secured, then whatever the Supreme Leader wishes.
I don’t think putting 70million people in concentration camps is going to go over well with the rest of the population.
They don’t need to target everyone, just the people with the aptitude and inclination for leadership and organization.
The goal wouldn’t be to arrest everyone who doesn’t like them, just to prevent that anger from leading to the creation of a real political opposition movement.
A leader doesn’t seem necessary. The leaderless nonviolent resistance movement has been winning in the court of public opinion.
But they can run around Tora Bora looking for the president of Antifa if they like.