Time and again the media portray Trump's ideas with responses such as, his ideas just won't work, they are unconstitutional, they are not American and so on. Pretty much the same accusations that are routinely made about Obama. For example, Obama's Affordable Care Act was unconstitutional and his Iran deal was immoral and his climate control ideas are unworkable. However, the media, forgets these accusations, and compares Trump to Hitler or McCarthy's communist hunt in the 50's.
Here is a bit of history. On December 17, 1944, in another time of war, the U.S. War Department announced it was ending its policy of excluding people of Japanese ancestry from the West Coast. They had been excluded up to then. America did what it had to do. It was a terrible policy, but it was war. How easy we forget what we had to do to get where we are and protect the result.
Trump's ideas are easily dismissed by anyone who does not read history. What price of lives must be extracted before Trump's ideas in some form are implemented by him or the next president?
History sheds a bright light on decisions that the moment often keeps in the dark.
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