Maddow sounds alarms on Trump: ‘They’re literally talking about putting people in camps’

A second term of Donald Trump is going to unfurl draconian policies that has MSNBC host Rachel Maddow concerned.

The cornerstone of former President Donald Trump's 2024 reelection campaign is to send back the migrants who entered the U.S. illegally.

His former aide, Stephen Miller, has floated building sprawling camps to hold people while processing the cases before they are ultimately flown back to their country of origin.

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All of it will be paid for by tapping the military budget and skipping Congress appropriations and oversight.

"They are literally talking about putting millions of people in camps in the United States," Maddow said during an appearance on MSNBC with host Jen Psaki.

The notion that this could happen caused Maddow to pause as she brought up the massive protest in Germany, where over 1.4 million people came out against a similar policy of removing swaths of the population from its borders.

"The reason they came out in Germany, was because of a report from a secret meeting with the far-right party [Alternative für Deutschland (AfD] which is polling very strongly in Germany, had secretly discussed mass deportations of migrants in Germany.

"Millions of people, all deported all at once. It was exposed in a bombshell investigative report. That is what Donald Trump and Stephen Miller are offering openly."

Widespread protests over the weekend broke out in Braunschweig, Erfurt and Kassel among the 100 locations across Germany — including in Berlin on Sunday.

A unified message was being pushed by politicians, churches and even sports coaches: that they must rise up against the AfD.

Maddow fears that, like many totalitarian regimes led by dictators in history, Americans are not immune from its draw.

"There's nothing about the American populace that makes us immune to the promises of strongmen leadership,"

She points to flirtations of paramilitary violence, spindling conspiracy theories, and denigrating the courts and other branches of government as warping the populace towards this kind of authoritarian messaging.

See the full discussion in the video below or at the link here.