JFK made the mistake of obliterating institutions in preparation for the residential treatment centers plan before having the latter secured. (And then he got got before finishing either.) Nixon and Reagan doubled-down on this unfinished project by making it even worse without offering anything resembling a functional, affordable, accessible, and humane mental healthcare system in America. Reagan and Trump both share the quality of obliterating anything they don't understand.
Step 1: Get rid of international trade
Step 2: Deport illegal immigrants who work cheap
Step 3: Criminalize free speech, being poor or mentally ill.
Step 4: Produce everything in prisons using slave labor
Profit...Extra bonus if you invested heavily in prisons.
So collective punishment and for-profit involuntary detention concentration camps for all poor people because you say so?
That's exactly what white supremacists used to say about brown people btw. "I had a bad experience and others did too, so let's X, Y, and Z because it's better for them!"