Donald Trump on terror is just McCarthyism for a new age | Simon Jenkins

While the Republican’s responses are hysterical, they fit with an American tradition of exploiting existential fear

The Republican candidate for the presidency, Donald Trump, now reacts to any terrorist incident with crude cynicism. While the incessant killings of Americans by Americans prove only that America needs more guns, a failed killing by an American Muslim is “a terrible thing that is going on in our country … an attack on America”.

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