The War on Terror conditioned voters to demand explicitly Islamophobic leadership
Evidence
Trump, and the brazen administration he oversaw, must be understood as progeny of the War on Terror. The culture of Islamophobia mainstreamed by the war conditioned the people to want a leader made in its image, one who made explicit the Islamophobia buried under the technical language of the law and the oratory giftwrapping of President Obama. And Trump, a salesman of the highest order, gave the people what they wanted. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 304
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Category: Causal Relationships
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- War on Terror conditioning produced the demand Trump satisfied (similarity 0.94)
- Obama’s surveillance state mainstreamed Islamophobia that enabled Trump’s victory (similarity 0.85)
- The War on Terror taught the public to equate extremism with Islam. (similarity 0.85)
- The War on Terror trained people to see extremism as exclusive to Islam (similarity 0.84)
- The War on Terror conditioned the American public to want Trump. (similarity 0.84)
- Trump exploited rather than created anti-Muslim sentiment built by fifteen years of war (similarity 0.84)
- Trump’s Islamophobia was opportunistic rather than ideological conviction (similarity 0.84)
- The War on Terror emboldened populists to scapegoat Muslims and seize power (similarity 0.84)
- Obama’s inclusive rhetoric coexisted with surveillance that later licensed Trump’s explicit Islamophobia (similarity 0.83)
- The Trump administration elevated Islamophobic figures who shared his conspiracy beliefs. (similarity 0.83)
- Explicit Islamophobia has become an effective electoral strategy (similarity 0.82)
- Anti-Muslim sentiment predated and undergirded the War on Terror (similarity 0.82)
- Trump’s anti-Muslim rhetoric and policy directly emboldened white supremacist attacks (similarity 0.82)
- The US War on Terror gave other nations a sanctioned template for suppressing Muslims (similarity 0.82)
- Trump’s anti-Muslim rhetoric and policies emboldened white supremacist vigilantes like Tarrant (similarity 0.82)