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Sara Smith's avatar

Yes, those are exactly the comments I was referencing, and I also remember when he talked about the same thing during the campaign. He tests the water to see how much resistance his ideas will generate and also to get us used to them. It just struck me with these latest remarks that this is a form of widespread grooming.

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Aaron Desmond's avatar

Thank you for sharing your recollection about Trump previously discussing this during the campaign, as I do not recall this myself. I'm going to try and find documentation of this, so if you happen to have a link to a source where he makes these comments I'd appreciate you sharing it. The idea of sending United States citizens to a prison in another country would seem outlandish to me until very recently. Now, I think it is important to be clear-eyed about adjusting our assessment of the range of possible actions likely to occur under this administration. I suspect such a possibility may seem outlandish for many people (like me until recently), so I think it would be helpful to accurately document the progression of this rhetoric.

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