He’s talking about the creep. The current legal battles are to establish the framework for all transactions of all kinds to be logged and processed digitally. A precursor to that is establishing a national digital ID.

First its optional and you can avoid things that use it. Then, slowly more things are on it and more and more people capitulate and get one.

Last, hey require it for everything, and since they’ve already got most people to get one, resistance is lukewarm and they get their way.