American Fascism is Much Worse Than You Think

What Really Happened in the Camps? It Happened Here.

umair haque
Eudaimonia and Co
Published in
8 min readOct 7, 2020

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Trump and Stephen Miller, smiling together.
Image Credit: Mark Wilson

Over the last few years, something horrific has happened in America. Not just Covid, not just climate change, not just growing poverty and despair. But fascism.

True fascism. Of the unthinkable kind.

Americans don’t fully know or appreciate or understand yet just how bad it is and was, how much shame and disgrace it brings on them, how humiliated they stand globally now. We survivors and scholars of such things, or people like me who are both, have seen it all with a shuddering sense of deja vu. Let me try to explain what really happened in the camps. We are starting to “know” — but we always knew, at least those of us who were paying attention, which should have been everyone.

We need to take away children at the border.” That’s what the Attorney General of the US said, in response to Trump’s “zero tolerance” policy. That policy was written by Stephen Miller.

It is becoming clear now that the worst fear and suspicions of survivors of such atrocities — Holocausts, crimes against humanity, all the words we must always say so that such things never happen again — were true.

What happened — is happening — in the camps is allegedly not one but several forms of attempted genocide. Yes, really. Every American should understand that beyond a shadow of a doubt, even if their failed intellectuals fail to educate them about such things.

Taking kids of one ethnicity or race away from their parents, and giving them to another is a form of attempted genocide. Here is what the Rome Statute, which establishes the international definition of genocide, says: “Genocide shall be defined as…e) forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.”

That is exactly what it seems is happening in Trump and Miller’s concentration camps. What we now know is that it was not the decision of a few bad apples, camp guards, veritable nobodies — mere functionaries in this machine of hate and violence. It was a policy that came from the very top. From the White House, from the Attorney General, from the President and his advisors. In other words, this American Presidential administration has, it seems, a

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