When Muslims should be required to register in a database or have a form of special identification, he failed to rule it out.
“We’re going to have to — we’re going to have to look at a lot of things very closely,” Trump replied, because “security is going to rule.”
Most politicians, presented with such an incendiary proposal, would recognize immediately its toxic echoes from the Nazi requirements for Jews, and dismiss it angrily. But not Trump.
In his ongoing campaign against the Constitution, Trump will entertain almost any idea that bolsters his tough-guy image on immigrants and security. And never mind that most Muslims in the U.S. are just as much American as Trump.
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