Trump’s anti-Muslim rhetoric and policies emboldened white supremacist vigilantes like Tarrant

Evidence

Trump, with his strategic integration of racist and anti-Muslim sloganeering, illustrated how white supremacy’s modern war centered Muslims as its principal targets. Trump’s potent rhetoric, and the force of his renewed War on Terror policies, which centered on closing the borders to Muslim “invaders” and guised “ISIS terrorists,” directly emboldened white supremacist vigilantes like Tarrant to join this new front of the racial War on Terror. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 917

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s question about state actors learning and exporting Islamophobic techniques; also resonates with Addendum 2’s theme of political rhetoric signaling acceptable targets. — connects to: Trump’s Muslim ban escalated Islamophobia to overt racial-nationalist action; The 2016 Trump era mainstreamed conspiracy-peddling anti-immigrant and white-supremacist groups — Anna Merlan, Republic of Lies, 30
• QUESTION: Sinnar is cited for the shifting relationship between white supremacist violence and the state — worth chasing her full argument for how this relationship cycles.