Actually, Conservatives Have Been Praising Internment for a Long Time

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On Tuesday, Donald Trump followed up his proposal to ban Muslims from traveling to the United States by telling Time that he might have supported the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. Many Republicans have condemned his proposal to bar Muslims from American soil, but the idea of applying principles of internment to the war on terror is not an unfamiliar one among elements of the conservative base either.

This is an actual book from New York Times best-selling author and esteemed Fox News talking head Michelle Malkin, from 2004: