“here Ickes has 112,000 Japanese-Americans locked up in internment camps, arguably the greatest US “atrocity” of the war”
I see that you put the word “atrocity” in quotation marks. Good. Some innocent people lost property, but there was a lot of spying going on among persons of Japanese ancestry. Further, they were no longer safe from the rage of some white Americans. As much as I loathe FDR, he got this one right.
The way I understand it, they weren’t “locked up” in internment camps, as they were allowed to go in and out. In addition, we have all heard of those who went into the military and demonstrated an unbelievable degree of bravery under fire.
As was often said during those days, “There’s a war on; you may have heard.”
Some years ago US courts decided that internment of Japanese civilians during WWII was a bad thing, and ordered compensation for the survivors.
I don't remember details of the decisions or amounts, but liberals love to draw moral equivalences between this and real atrocities committed by axis powers -- even though it means throwing their own saint FDR under the bus!
But never fear -- liberals like Ickes can always find ways to blame others for their own wrong-doings.
In this case, as you repeat, Ickes blamed racist right-wingers who he claimed would attack Japanese civilians if they weren't kept in protective custody.
The general consensus today is that such fears were overblown and those "corrective actions" taken at FDR's orders were wildly inappropriate.
So, in this case (as in most), Democrats have only themselves to legitimately blame, regardless of how urgently they wish to accuse others.