Saturday, October 8, 2016

Meet Sadiq Khan: The liberal Muslim London mayor out of Trump’s worst nightmare

As news emerged about the bombing in New York’s Chelsea neighborhood on Sept. 17, Donald Trump’s next move was all too predictable. Given that the Republican presidential nominee’s political playbook is undergirded by a scintilla of conviction and consists of few pages, he was certain to deploy the usual: fearmongering and self-adulation.

Understandably, an adult whose speech quality is assessed to be below the sixth-grade level may lack complexity of thought and appreciation for nuance.

Once Ahmad Rahami’s name and place of birth began to circulate, Trump encouraged the electorate to be fearful and vigilant, arguing that similar attacks “will happen more and more all over the country.” As Amy Davidson wrote for The New Yorker, Trump “packed misinformation in so densely that it makes summary a challenge.”...
http://www.salon.com/2016/09/24/meet-sadiq-khan-the-liberal-muslim-london-mayor-out-of-trumps-worst-nightmare/


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