By 2006 a third of Americans endorsed Muslim identity cards like Nazi-era policies.

Evidence

Prior to Obama’s candidacy for president, nearly half of Americans in 2005 reported the threat of radical Islamic terrorism as serious as the threat of Communism in the twentieth century. In 2006, a USA Today / Gallup poll reported that 39 percent of Americans “felt at least some prejudice against Muslims” and 39 percent supported requiring Muslims, including US citizens, to carry special identification—a requirement imposed on Jews in Germany in the years preceding the Holocaust. The same poll found that 51 percent of Americans believed Muslims are not loyal to the United States, and a quarter of Americans did not want a Muslim as a neighbor. — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 840

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth chasing: what changed in the 2010s and 2020s — did identity card support rise or fall post-Trump?
• SEED: Angle: the willingness of a democratic public to endorse discriminatory registry policies as a leading indicator of state authoritarianism.
• XREF: connects to: A third to two-fifths of Americans endorse special restrictions on Muslims. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 457