"One of the current big supporters of freedom may hate and oppose your freedom during your lifetime" has always been a very hard sell.

Show them examples of a free place becoming unfree? "Oh, we're different, that can't happen here".

Multiple countries have already been sharing this information between eachother and the U.S. to some capacity for some time now and hardly anyone raises a stink about it [0] except us old-man-yells-at-cloud folk.

I think GP is right that if not for Trump, no one would care. Like the majority of the U.S.'s over-reaching policies that have largely only come under scrutiny in recent times (at least, amongst this audience).

[0] https://www.biometricupdate.com/202406/five-eyes-biometric-d...

That ship sailed for the most part. This data is already commonly shared between countries.