Trump Idiot Says Muslim Registry Great Idea, Because Look How Well Japanese-American Internment Went
Rarely is the question asked: Is our white people learning?
You know how now that he's president-elect, Donald Trump is, in the imagination of some optimists, planning to take much less crazy positions than he did during the campaign? Beyond the question of whether he's capable of planning much at all, it looks like Trump's rumored "moderation" will be just like all those times he "pivoted" toward being presidential -- and about as stable, as far as we can tell. So nobody should be surprised that after we learned the idea of a Muslim "registry" is again being batted around by the transition team, aTrumpnumpty turned up on Fox News to explain why it's a terrific idea, and perfectly legal, because after all, didn't we put all those Japanese-Americans in internment camps during WWII?
Carl Higbie, a former Navy SEAL and head of the Trump-aligned super PAC "Great America," explained to Megyn Kelly that a database of all Muslim immigrants in the USA would be no big, since America has such a proud history of overreacting in abject fear:
Trump surrogates are already citing Japanese internment camps from WW II as "precedent" for Muslim registry pic.twitter.com/DVnjtom0mc
— Brendan Karet (@bad_takes) November 17, 2016
Again, I will ask Muslims to register in some kind of database right after we require potential domestic terrorists (White Supremist, Sovereign Citizens, Gun Rights Extremists, etc.) to register somewhere.
Unfortunately, that also means there's no paperwork proving you aren't Muslim. ( Just look how many RWNJs still think Obama is. ) This is the sort of thing that would be almost certain to devolve into a witch-hunt. All the fun of McCarthy-ism, with bonus racism thrown in to liven things up, as I suspect most of those so accused would be some variety of non-white ethnicity.