History gives us several precedents, for example:
In 1932, Hoover sent in the army to round up veterans camped out in shanty towns around DC. Tanks armed with machine guns rolled through DC to roust the protestors. (2/x)
Most of us know that FDR ordered 112,000 Japanese-Americans rounded up during WW2 into internment camps. They had done nothing wrong other than they were Japanese. They lost their liberties and their properties. George Takei is a survivor and often speaks about it. (3/x)
https://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/japanese-relocation#background
"Operation Wetback" was Eisenhower's program to round up Hispanics and dump them across the Mexican border. Some of those detained died while in custody due to sunstroke or disease; how many is unknown. (4/x)
https://www.history.com/news/operation-wetback-eisenhower-1954-deportation
We all know that Hitler began with rounding up the Jews. Trump might begin with Hispanics, with Muslims, with Chinese -- all sorts of rumors are flying.
If SCOTUS lets him do it, what's to stop him from rounding up, e.g. people registered Democrat?
If SCOTUS lets him do it, I'm seriously considering leaving the US. That poses complications, since my #MAGA wife will be quite happy about all this and won't leave. But I'm already researching nations that take US citizens. (5/5)
Authoritarians gain power by people allowing them to have power until they are powerless to stop them.
Who is going to allow that? that is all that matters in the next 4 years
@WordsmithFL @Kinnison Trump got a little less than 50%. That's not a popular mandate.