thecringeandwincefactory:

lexaproletariat:

There’s a tricky balance to strike between recognizing the severity and inhumanity of specific policies and events, like Trump’s “zero tolerance” policy, and recognizing their deep congruity with Western political history. Our migrant internment camps don’t just have ample precedent in US history; they have ample parallels in the Western present. This is a crisis and an unconscionable moral crime, but it’s precisely the kind of crime through which the United States and the West in general has been built.

Concise.