Two books assess the impact of September 11th on America

"After George Floyd's murder in 2020, the Department of Homeland Security created "baseball card" intelligence reports on Black Lives Matter activists in Portland, Oregon -- modelled on the set that depicted Saddam Hussein's henchmen in 2003."

"Hillary Clinton, his opponent in 2016, epitomised the threadbare and easily mockable expert consensus."

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"He contends that between September 11th 2001 and January 6th 2021, when enraged supporters of Donald Trump stormed the Capitol, "Americans lost their vision for the common good, the capacity to see the union as larger than the sum of its parts"."

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"But Mr Trump skilfully exploited the fear, vulnerability, nativism and sense of humiliation that the war on terror fomented."

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"Not least, advances in racial equality, of the sort that Mr Obama's election represented, have often produced a backlash in America."

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"Mr Trump's insight, argues Mr Ackerman, "was that the jingoistic politics of the war on terror did not have to be tied to the war on terror itself".nn"

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"Mr Bush's administration began such practices, but Barack Obama's continued many of them."

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"Even though Mr Trump ran against "forever wars" and America's national-security establishment, they -- that is, the country's response to the September 11th attacks -- paved his path to power.nn"

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"at Ilhan Omar, a Muslim congresswoman."

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"That reaction was not solely responsible for Mr Trump's election victory; complex events rarely have single causes."

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"Mr Trump packed his government with anti-Muslim bigots and presided over rallies at which crowds chanted "Send her back!""

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