Trump's team still consider internment camps a top priority. If they open, they will likely never close

Jamelle Bouie, who the New York Times continues to put up with as a columnist despite the fact that he is, you know, aware of the world around him and knows facts and things, makes an important point here:

Trump's team has already signaled that they'll be pressing full steam ahead with mass deportations, in large part because Trump's "team" has now been winnowed down to people who support violent coup attempts and doing felonies, and you're not going to find many people in that crowd who aren't either white supremacists or full-on Nazis. "It is righteous and just to overthrow the government to purge our enemies" is violent white supremacy's whole thing; Steve Bannon, Stephen Miller, JD "Banned from Ikea" Vance and the Madison Square Garden parade of oozing horrors are all chomping at the bit to start hurting people. It's going to be, if we believe their own words, one of their top priorities.

There's a lot of very gullible people out there who insist it won't be. I don't look forward to their inevitable and perhaps-feigned surprise.

On the "infrastructure for mass deportation" front, there's a chain of near-impossible problems that the most ignorant people in America have now tasked themselves with solving. "Rounding up" targets in the first place can't be done without a massive new "police" force. Given the nature of the job it will primarily attract violent white supremacists and militia cranks whose, ahem, personalities had so far rendered them unfit for other law enforcement jobs and who lack the courage to join the military. We can imagine how that will go.

Once the "rounding up" part is underway, detaining such large numbers of human beings will require, as Stephen Miller has boasted because he is well and truly the biggest piece of shit to ever attach himself to politics since at least Charles Coughlin's day, an unprecedented "infrastructure" effort to build ... camps. Internment camps. The need for camps is obvious even to Miller: "Deporting" such large numbers of people at once is not possible. It is a ruse—a lie. There are no countries that can absorb number of forced new arrivals Trump's Nazi-modeled freaks insist will be shoved onto them. Those countries will refuse to take more than a negotiated, much smaller influx, and the rest of Trump and Miller's detainees will need to be imprisoned, in internment camps, indefinitely.

That was the point where Miller's ideological predecessors concluded that deportation was no longer feasible, and that a more "final" solution was needed. We will presume for the moment that Americans somehow muster enough moral character to object to that. We will see.

At some point this effort will, ostensibly be wound down again, and that's where Bouie's point comes in. Let's suppose Trump's new Holocaust-scale "infrastructure" of camps and prisons fulfills its purpose and America is expunged of every last migrant, legal or no, and every last one of their children, citizens or not, and the job is "done."

Will the job be declared "done?" Of course not.

One of the biggest winners in the stock market rally (monsters, all these people are monsters and I don't want to identify as the same species as them at this point) was private prison companies, because imprisoning human beings is something that the shittiest people you can imagine look at and think "someone needs to turn a profit from this." And after staffing up a Holocaust-scaled network of institutional internment, absolutely nobody is going to willingly agree to shut those camps down. They will need to be filled—forever, if shareholders are to be properly served.

There will be an institutional, profit-driven "need" to find more people to imprison, and Republicans have a long list of people they don't like. It doesn't take much imagination to predict what happens next. It is almost assured, however, that the next victims of this grand new infrastructure will be homeless Americans. Trump has long expressed a seething contempt for homeless Americans, because they clutter the landscape and lower his property values. He's long said we need to put them somewhere else.

So that will be who's next. And it will be framed, like all ramshackle local government camps for the homeless, as doing them a very big favor.

And because Trump intends and will almost certainly follow through on a tariff program that will immediately crater the economy and lead to a depression—after deporting so much of our agricultural workforce as to create food shortages—there are going to be millions of newly homeless Americans. Millions.

All of this is what Trump intends. We're presuming his band of racist incompetent idiots musters up the brownshirts necessary to round up millions and cobbles together internment camps in which death will be commonplace because none of these malevolent shits are going to tolerate giving more than token medical care to their targets. But we have to assume that's going to be true, because "racist incompetent idiots" was how Nazi Germany staffed itself and they were able to accomplish the same. It's very likely that the plan will stall because other nations will simply refuse to accept any of the American Nazi Party's deportees, at which point Trump will be presiding over a network of "millions" of interned human beings who will have to be kept in detention... forever.

And if that is a horror that is somehow avoided, we're still left with the final problem: What to do with the most massive network of internment camps ever constructed.

There won't be any migrants left at that point, promises Trump. So which American citizens will fill the camps next, in order to keep them profitable for the private companies that run them?

And after that?