Coalition of WWII Japanese American internment camp survivors stage peaceful protest at immigrant detention facility on Texas border https://t.co/iZLmM5O0W8
— Nick Estes (@nick_w_estes) June 19, 2019
Thing is, I don’t think this is a power move — it’s the GOP’s frantic effort to appeal to worst elements of its Base by upping the public cruelty, because Trump’s lost his novelty and the economic impact of the GOP’s smash-and-grab is affecting too many ‘dependable’ GOP voters. It’s like offering fentanyl to a heroin addict in withdrawal… assuming the GOP oligarchs are fentanyl addicts already, and the junkie has the key to the drug safe.
I remember reading that, by the final months of World War II, Hitler’s staff was pulling desperately needed resources away from the production of weapons to keep the trains running to the death camps. We need to fight back, hard, but we shouldn’t let an unwarranted despair over Republican power deter our efforts.
What does them a tremendous disservice is fainting-couch rules for sanitizing discussions about a grotesque & criminal policy of taking asylees who’ve broken no laws by seeking asylum, stealing their children, & taking those not sent to concentration camps & putting them in cages https://t.co/RSufgg36E5
— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) June 20, 2019
Maybe people SHOULD start talking about whether Border Patrol are like Nazis. They’re not as bad as Nazis, of course. But going even a tiny step in the direction of Nazis is not at all acceptable!
— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) June 20, 2019
The current “debate” started, AFAICT, because Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez “decried the conditions of migrant detention facilities the administration is using to cope with a surge of border crossings and highlighted a decision to hold some children at an Oklahoma Army base that was used as an internment camp for Japanese Americans during World War II.” So Dick Cheney’s favorite daughter Liz — already “the No. 3 Republican in the House” — upheld her family’s proud tradition of inhumanity by pretending the Holocaust meant something more to her and her GOP associates than a rhetorical tool. Every Media Village Idiot (plus some quasi-liberal people who should’ve known better, like Chris Hayes) rushed to wallow in the quicksand…
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