> People love to act like America just lost her mind one day and there wasn’t the slightest reason to doubt their loyalty. <
Yep. But there really was credible evidence of spying, and FDR chose not to ignore it. That’s what you do when you’re in a life-or-death struggle.
Take a look at this article.
https://www.nytimes.com/1983/05/22/us/1941-cables-boasted-of-japanese-american-spying.html
I didn’t like FDR’s domestic policies, but he was a damn good war President.
People have no idea December 1941. We really were knocked back on our heels. Britain stood alone. Australia was being attacked and was impotent to stop it. And the nazis were almost in artillery range of Moscow.
That was not a time for half-hearted measures.
The reason we got things turned around and became the roaring machine we were within a year or two was because we didn’t screw around one damn bit.
Anyone with any sense looks back and feels bad for Japanese Americans who got locked up. But they weren’t abused. It was a hell of a lot better to be at Manzanar than to be an American interned in the Philippines, China or elsewhere.