Could US hold people again?

[struggle4progress]

JOHN SOWELL Idaho Statesman 7 hrs ago

... Holly Yasui .. the daughter of Minoru Yasui, who was jailed in Portland before being sent to the Minidoka internment camp ... said she’s troubled by broadsides against Muslims ...

Trump has said he is against internment camps but supports blocking Muslims from entering the United States.

“It’s frightening to hear this rhetoric,” Holly Yasui said. “Sometimes it appears this country is going to hell in a handbasket, but I do have faith in people. And I hear people here on the left and on the right saying that it’s important to respect the Constitution and the rights of all people” ...

Resentment against Muslims grew following the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Holly Yasui said. Muslims in the United States had nothing to do with those attacks, just like Japanese Americans had nothing to do with the Dec. 7, 1941, Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, she said ...

http://magicvalley.com/news/local/former-wwii-internee-s-daughter-asks-could-us-hold-people/article_a52d73bc-7726-57b7-8446-2d042ab7ccc3.html

[Stonepounder]

1. Heartbreaking.

And frightening. That a person like Trump could tap into such a wellspring of hatred and fear to the point that he actually is the presumptive nominee for President. Yet people can't see that it is the Right Wing that is causing the problems with the country with its mantra of lower taxes, trickle-down economics (which even they know is a ridiculous theory). And still they vote for the most extreme candidates and think that somehow things will change.