Oh I understand, but to comfortably say it can never happen here is a bit ignorant. It can, and it will come from the other side this time around.
I understand - but I’ve never said it can’t happen here. I wish our current government would do this today with Muslims living in the US; how many times must Americans be killed by terrorists “on watch lists”?
Besides living a dozen miles west of Ground Zero in Manhattan, closer to home are two sites of saboteur attacks during WWI - Black Tom Island in Jersey City and the Canadian Car & Foundry Company in Lyndhurst (both fairly close together in northeastern NJ). Both were sending munitions to the Triple Entente in violation of our neutrality (and as such, fair game), but they showed we were vulnerable; in my town, they stationed a detachment of troops at a rail bridge over a river connecting to Newark.
I don’t know where we balance our safety with government authority; I certainly don’t trust the government to do it (in light of the last 20 years).
No, it will come from the same side. The Wilson group was not patriotic, it was rabid progressive authoritarian. They would feel quite at home in today’s Democrat party. Their “patriotism” is the same as democrats today standing up for “our democracy” and Nancy Pelosi conning out to impeach Trump with a dozen American flags in the background. Wilson lives on in speech codes, the patriot act, social media censoring, and political correctness.