From a quick tour of comments on the web, and watching TV, it is clear that a breaking point has been reached, and Americans are not in the mood to treat the repeated attacks on strangers by people who are Muslims as just the isolated acts of crazy individuals. Americans will not blame the attack in Orlando with lax gun control laws. Americans today are anxious and afraid- and vengeful about the ingratitude of Muslims who were offered the same life in America as all others who live here, but based on their allegiance to a religion or foreigners, are quick to kill strangers. Most important, after seeing events here and other western countries by Muslims, Americans are not particularly interested in protecting the civil rights of Muslim Americans as their top priority.
Sitting in a safe place, I defend the liberal view point, but I wonder how I would feel if one of my children were killed. Similarly, if I were an American who had not given the issue great thought before, I regret to say that I probably would not be striving to be reasonable and a good citizen. I would demand protection and would want to know the steps, in detail, my government plans to protect me from Muslims. Is that irrational? Who cares?. Trump is out front on this issue, not to present a teaching moment or a lecture on restraint. He is quenching a palpable thirst in Americans.
Let this not be the game changer. the President and HRC must devise and sell to America their own plan to quench the thirst. It must be directed at the thirst specifically, and it must demonstrate how Americans will be protected from ISIS influencing American attacks, and must answer specifically why Omar Mateen, who was brought to the attention of the FBI twice, was allowed to slip through the FBI’s scrutiny.
A presidential election is at stake. We Democrats need our leaders to come up with a plan that will convince Americans that Trump is not the only one who understands what is on their minds.