
American Terror After 9/11 (with Spencer Ackerman)
Free Thoughts
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The War on Terror Is All Through Bertherism
The war on terror has spent nearly the past decade telling you that this sort of person is not your political opponent, but a secret muslem. Trump takes this nativist subtexts and a path dependencies of the war on terror, and makes it really explicit. And he does it in a way that no longer pays whip service to this kind of idea that the wars are valuable or are anything other than disaster.
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