While Tennessee House Republican Caucus Chairman Glen Casada said the National Guard should round up Syrian refugees and force them into ICE Centers, the Mayor of Roanoke Virginia really went there.
Roanoke Mayor David Bowers invoked President Roosevelt and Japanese Internment.
I can scarcely imagine the fucking fantasy land of non-existential horror one must live in to compare today's environment to that of World War 2. There is no comparison between the small regional terrorist organization known as ISIS and the vast Japanese empire. I know it's a popular right wing meme, but even 9/11 wasn't analogous to Pearl Harbor.
Just like many other Americans, Mayor Bowers will roll through Starbucks in the morning care-free and enjoy his life of excess without the threat of invasion or world domination by Axis powers. You asshole.
I will say this. The threat of Japanese American sabotage was also fictitious so, in that regard, this may be a good comparison.
We are governed by idiots.