Step Right Up and Make America Safe Again

The theme for the opening night of the Republican National Convention was “Make America Safe Again.” It seemed like the setup for a program on national security but turned out to be something darker and more encompassing: a pageant of fear, as my colleague John Cassidy has noted, directed at a vast range of opponents, from the Islamic State to Black Lives Matter to the Libyan mobs that sacked the consulate in Benghazi. Rarely, in the thirteen months since Donald Trump entered the race for President, has it been clearer that he has refashioned the Republican Party in his own image and enlarged the definition of America’s enemies.

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