LESS than a month before the Supreme Court considers the legality of his executive order barring travel from six overwhelmingly Muslim countries, Donald Trump has handed a gift to those challenging the ban. Reacting to a bombing on the London underground on September 15th, Mr Trump first condemned the “loser terrorist” who perpetrated the attack, calling the bomber “sick and demented” and noting that potential miscreants “must be dealt with in a much tougher manner”. Then he brought the issue home: “The travel ban into the United States should be far larger, tougher and more specific—but stupidly, that would not be politically correct!” In dealing with the likes of the Islamic State, he concluded, America “must be proactive & nasty!”
The logic of Mr Trump’s tweets is puzzling: he suggests that political correctness is to blame for the inadequate size, toughness and specificity of his March order, but he, after all, is the president who signed that order, and one of Mr Trump’s campaign pledges was never to...Continue reading
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