Thank god for Glenn Greenwald. Someone who remembers how we got to the point where Trump can ban Muslims from the US.
Greenwald:
Trump did not appear out of nowhere.
He is the logical and most grotesque expression of a variety of trends
we have allowed to fester: endless war, a virtually omnipotent
presidency, unlimited war powers from spying to due process-free
imprisonment to torture to assassinations, repeated civil liberties
erosions in the name of illusory guarantees of security, and the
sustained demonization of Muslims as scary, primitive, uniquely violent
Others.
A country that
engages in endless war against multiple countries not only kills a lot
of people but degrades its own citizenry. Trump is the rotted fruit that
inevitably sprouts from such fetid roots.
Trump is not a Russian
phenomenon, nor an Italian one, nor Latin American: He is distinctly
and consummately American, merely the most extreme face yet from
America’s endless war on terror and its post-2008 lurch toward
oligarchy. Pretending that Trump is some grand aberration, some radical
departure from U.S. history and values, is simply a deceitful way of
whitewashing what we have collectively endorsed and allowed. ...
Opposing Trump’s assault on basic liberties requires a clear understanding of the framework that gave rise to it.
