History Repeats As Racist Tragedy

Jesus. Under trump's administration, we're not only doomed to repeat the worst parts of our nation's history, it's like trump and his cronies are intentionally going out of their way to be assholes. Look at what they're planning to do next to asylum-seeking families now (via Chelsia Rose Marcius at the Daily Beast):

The Trump administration plans to use an Oklahoma Army base that previously served as a Japanese internment camp to hold a growing number of migrant children, Time reports. About 1,400 children who are in U.S. custody will reportedly be placed at Fort Sill, a 150-year-old military base previously used to house hundreds of Japanese-Americans forced into internment camps during World War II. According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the base will be used “as a temporary emergency influx shelter” to alleviate the influx at other facilities. The U.S. government operates about 168 facilities and programs in 23 states. The Department of Health and Human Services said in a statement that it has detained approximately 40,900 children from the beginning of the year through April 30—a 57 percent increase from last year.

We're seeing an influx of immigrants and asylum-seekers at our borders because of various reasons: Growing gang violence in Central American nations, ongoing drought in Guatemala, problems that just make it unsafe/unhealthy for families to stay.

Yet here's the modern Republican Party showing absolutely no awareness, no sympathy, no realization that the last three years of vicious behavior hasn't scared off Latinos, no concern that there are more humane ways to handle the overflow than shoving thousands of honest-to-God families in need of help into cramped, lethal conditions.

We're basically jailing kids for being alive.

We're basically allowing the Republicans to bring back the internment camp horrors of the 1940s, to where Japanese Americans (some of them still alive from those years) are reacting in anger.

We're basically building our own version of concentration camps. Yeah, I went there. BECAUSE WE ARE, DAMN US.

Adam Serwer's article should be read every morning as a reminder of how sadistic the Republican Party has become.

The Cruelty IS the Point.