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Trump will take every part of this--corruption, abuse of powers, targeting minorities, doing harm to those he identifies as enemies--as far as he can. He's limited only by institutional barriers, which are fairly flexible with the current makeup of the Senate and Supreme Court.
Leaders who ended up instituting concentration camps and other repressive measures weren't necessarily smart. Even in cases where they were, many have tended to be reactive. They respond to things in the moment. They do as much as they can get away with & wait, & then go further.
All of which is to say that early on, they themselves often don't imagine the worst things they will do, or how opening one set of doors will lead to new possibilities of inflicting harm at a later date.
It's a strange moment. We can still speak freely in public. Courts can rule as they wish. If the House began impeachment proceedings, the Senate *could* reverse course tomorrow and back them up. But these kinds of institutional interventions seem less and less likely.
The existence of camps for untried civilians, arrests and detention of several citizens (that we know about), the use of the military on domestic soil--these are terrible indicators. In the past, they have typically signaled much worse things to come.
