George Takei uses past experience to take on Trump

Clearly, the nation has had enough of Donald Trump. Well, those with any functional, productive brain activity or memory, have had it, officially, with the racist bully that has dominated our television sets and Facebook feeds. But it was his most recent comment, that has the media in frenzy to figure out how to talk about this man, and every other sensible person trying to find a way to put an end to these damaging shenanigans.

On Monday, a campaign release stated, “Donald J. Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country’s representatives can figure out what is going on.”

This is after he called for  surveillance against mosques and said he was open to establishing a database for all Muslims living in the U.S. His message comes in the wake of a deadly mass shooting in San Bernardino, California, by suspected ISIS sympathizers and the day after President Barack Obama asked the country not to “turn against one another” out of fear.

And yet, Trump continues to instill fear into Americans. He is dangerous, and he is trying to repeat history. So when George Takei spoke with MSNBC about Trump, he recalled a time from his past when he too was targeted based solely on his heritage. He spoke about his time in an internment camp.

“It’s ironic that he made that comment on December 7, Pearl Harbor Day, the very event that put us in those internment camps,” Takei started.

“In the 1980’s Congress organized a commission to look into the reasons why that internment happened,” he said. “They found that it was three things that brought that about. One was racial hysteria, second was war hysteria, and third was failure of political leadership.”

“Donald Trump is the perfect example of that failure,” Takei added.

*snap, snap, snap*