Trump's ultimate lie -- that he knows how to "Make America Safe Again" -- is what makes him even more dangerous than Hillary Clinton. What he "knows," what he attacks Clinton and Obama for refusing to recognize, what separates him from even Dick Cheney and George W. Bush is the certainty that the ultimate cause of the terrorist threat is "radical Islamic extremism."
Nothing Trump or Clinton will do in Iraq and Syria will curtail terrorist attacks. But Trump commits himself far more fully to achieve that goal. He feeds the hatred of Muslims that unites Christian nationalists and neo-fascists on both sides of the Atlantic. And he pursues a clash of civilizations that will only help Islamic State and its competitors to recruit even more terrorists to their cause. This is not a future to embrace.
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