The Logic of Militant Democracy: From domestic concentration camps to the war on terror

Udi Greenberg writes about the historical precedent to the detention camps in Texas. Despite its best efforts, the Trump Administration has sparked an intense interest in American history. The President's assault on equality is so breathtaking that one of the few ways to make sense of it is to view it as product of long and well-established traditions. Many Americans have therefore reacted to the administration's actions with a renewed look at the darker sides of their country's past. Donald Trump's response to the white supremacist march in Charlottesville last summer provoked a national discussion of the lasting legacy of racism and its embodiment in the nation's many monuments to the Confederacy.The horrifying reports from Texas, where asylum seekers are arrested with no legal rights, have raised the specter of the notorious World War II–era detention of Japanese Americans. (Read full story here.)