Tucker Carlson

Did you know that in 1942, when Franklin Roosevelt issued his famous executive order to intern about 120,000 Japanese Americans, mostly in the West, Oregon, Washington, California, in concentration camps, did you know the most interesting fact

of that decision is often omitted from it.

The overwhelming majority of them were American citizens, actual citizens or legal residents, but two thirds were American citizens with full citizenship who'd been convicted of no crime, hadn't even been charged with a crime, but they were thrown into concentration camps for three years and lost their property.

And there was some effort in the 80s to be like, oh, we're so sorry.

And also, who really cares?

Imperial Japan was bad.

But these people weren't actually subjects of Imperial Japan.

They were American citizens.

And they were thrown into concentration camps with their families and no one really said anything?

I mean, it's complicated.

It's complicated.

That's not complicated, actually.

That's totally wrong.

You can't treat American citizens that way if you're the U.S.

government, ever.

And yet, Roosevelt was able to do it because it was 1942 and the war wasn't looking good.

And that's the other thing to remember.

That as wars get tougher, say if you commit ground troops and find yourself stuck in a place and can't get out, it's happened many, many times.

As things get tougher and leaders become less popular...

and people become more enraged and discouraged and sad and distracted, governments can assume powers unimaginable in peacetime, even more dramatically than they did during the COVID epidemic.