When the government's lever was "interstate commerce" the Supreme Court ruled that growing your own grain to feed your own animals meant you wouldn't buy grain on the open market, therefore it affects the market, therefore it's interstate commerce, therefore they can control you growing your own grain on your own property to feed your own animals.
Now their pretext is "national security". Cars are national security. Soybeans are national security. Blowing up fishing boats is national security. Ballroom is national security. Japanese immigrant farmers are planting their strawberry field rows to point to radar installations, national security! National security!
Yeah the racist conspiracies happening now regarding non-white immigrants is basically just a rehash of the same racist conspiracies used as a pretext to illegally imprison Japanese Americans and steal their land in WWII. It's been awhile since I read about it so I don't remember if the strawberry fields were supposedly pointing at radar, or if they were "surrounding critical installations" or "staging grounds for invasion" or whatever, but basically capitalists wanted that land.
As weak as that pretext was it's still more coherent than, "data center opposition is due to Chinese paid protestors" or, "they're eating the cats and dogs." So we've even grown more stupid and lazy with our racist pretexts which is pretty damning.