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American concentration camps

"These aren't people. These are animals."

These words alone set off the alarm -- the fascism alarm, you might say. Donald Trump is by no means the sole source of America's democracy nosedive, but he's its current, deeply troubling manifestation.

Should I write this week about the wars he wants to wage or the refugee border cages he continues to fill? They're all connected, by their domination and punishment mindset, their subservience to war profiteering and the geopolitics of empire, their ignorant certainty that American exceptionalism is the cornerstone of national security, their

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