RE: Trump and Conservatism As A Threat: What Should Be Done?
January 13, 2017 at 5:22 pm
(This post was last modified: January 13, 2017 at 5:24 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Valid points, but perhaps a little too early to sound the sirens, though I'd call anyone who thinks those sirens will never need to be sounded naive.
The American Taliban is alive and well. They have more resources and more power at their disposal than the Taliban ever did at their height (more loyal adherents, too)...and we can probably call the last few decades for the American Taliban the low water mark for them. What they've been up to, what they look like...this is them at their least effective. Once we let that sink in, ofc they're a credible threat to us, just as the Taliban was a credible threat in the Middle East even when the people living there thought of them as a joke. Saw how that played out, didn't we?
The American Taliban is alive and well. They have more resources and more power at their disposal than the Taliban ever did at their height (more loyal adherents, too)...and we can probably call the last few decades for the American Taliban the low water mark for them. What they've been up to, what they look like...this is them at their least effective. Once we let that sink in, ofc they're a credible threat to us, just as the Taliban was a credible threat in the Middle East even when the people living there thought of them as a joke. Saw how that played out, didn't we?
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