I always love getting your yin to my yang. Truly :)!

And this is true, the blue states will serve as fed agitation ops, and it is the red states that will see The Camps, whatever form they take. Newsom will never allow anything of scale, but they'll need to do it at "the border" to do the optics optimally. Does anyone in the admin want to explain to viewers that Florida has many asylum seekers arriving by means other than a "caravan" on foot and/or "reward" DeSantis with some sweet, sweet federal deportation slush funds?

We will see how little or great of a legal resistance there is now with so many MAGA judges and with the admin loyalty tested to blood hound level, self-selected. Yeah I wrote most of this 15 hours ago now and others have got many of the other points covered that I had planned to make. I liked that a lot, actually :).

Your flight of fancy presumes this will go well for Trump and Miller

Wait though, nuh uh. I explicitly said that they'll probably use a badly botched deportation in any way they can to acquire additional power. Think I said "steal civil liberties" (don't make me read me, I hate me). You know reactionaries better than I. But I've no real way of knowing if they're planning for it to be botched intentionally. However, I know beyond any shadow of a doubt that it will indeed be thoroughly and completely botched, either way.

But yes, how far they will dare to will go in disrupting the migrant worker employers will be super interesting. Maybe subsidies to farmers, construction businesses, etc., it's all about appeasing the "small business owner" (read: mostly billionaires, holy shit that cabinet bro, NASA is now billionaire'd). Btw, it's pretty wild how over-represented the small business owner was at J6. Seen't it somewhere on a recent philosophy youtube (like no it was legit, trust me), maybe I'll find it later.

And yeah all Trump really has to do about it is rhetoric though, right? Does anyone think he gives a shit about the day-to-day? No he wants to see the day-to-day make Fox News and CNN primetime every single night, a new heroic raid of "illegals" at 7:01 PM, and at 7:03 PM the announcement of another "crime wave".

He's also definitely pretty racist. Not motivated enough by it to do more than seize power with it, mostly, but securing and nurturing that power may require MSAGA (or just the boer great again, we mean) and the camps. In hindsight, not seeing the coming alignment of ex-apartheid south african billionaires with the white christian theocratic movement was stupid of me. But it is a shaky alliance, methinks...

I love having this conversation, even if I am deadass wrong. Again, it is utterly pathetic how the media have glossed right over it.