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The Gray Area with Sean Illing cover image

The road from 9/11 to Donald Trump

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

The War on Terrorism Is Not Just Coming, It's Coming for America

As the wars deteriorate, a constituency is stoked to believe that Islam must be combated over there and not over here. And according focus, and this as expanding dramatically, particularly when the first black president gets elected. The war on terror is right there, because its calling obama a secret foreign muslem,. That explains why he is an enemy, why he's not interested in your security and so on. This found purchase because it was so aggressively cultivated by people like donald trump who has played this casually violent nativism for his public career.

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