What happens after the next big terrorist attack? Trump is paving the way toward a terrifying...

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SUNDAY, FEB 19, 2017 08:00 AM EST

What happens after the next big terrorist attack? Trump is paving the way toward a terrifying crackdown

Terrorism presents a grave danger — not for the reasons Trump claims, but because it could undermine democracy

PHIL TORRES

Terrorism has never been so dangerous. Even a single terrorist attack against American troops abroad or — more worrisome — a “soft target” here in the United States could have potentially catastrophic consequences for the stability and future of Western civilization.

Perhaps you’re skeptical of this claim, and you should be. After all, the average American has a greater chance of dying from a meteorite strike than a terrorist attack. But there are other reasons for considering the threat of terrorism to be greater today than at any moment since, say, the 18th century, when the word “terrorism” emerged from the French Revolution.

Consider some remarks made by our former president, that tyrannical Muslim socialist who never should have been president because he was born in Kenya. During the 2010 State of the Union address, Barack Obama said the following:

With all due deference to separation of powers, last week the Supreme Court reversed a century of law that, I believe, will open the floodgates for special interests, including foreign corporations, to spend without limit in our elections.

Many people, including conservatives, were outraged. A Republican from Utah called it “rude,” while even Sen. Russ Feingold of Wisconsin, a Democrat, described these comments as “inappropriate.” As the Washington Post put it,“legal experts (have) never seen anything quite like it, a rare and unvarnished showdown between two political branches during what is usually the careful choreography of the State of the Union address.”

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http://www.salon.com/2017/02/19/what-happens-after-the-next-big-terrorist-attack-trump-is-paving-the-way-toward-a-terrifying-crackdown/