"Common Sense" = deport, ban and kill
by digby
Todd Starnes of Fox News explains why the latest Trump brouhaha is music to wingnuts' ears:
Donald Trump’s call to ban all Muslim immigration has caused anger and righteous indignation from Democrats and Republicans. Catholics and Baptists
But a good many folks across the fruited plain support Mr. Trump's plan. Folks want to do whatever it takes to protect their families from the jihadists.
If you move beyond the toxic politics - what Mr. Trump is suggesting is not all that outrageous. It’s rather prudent.
What’s wrong with temporarily suspending Muslim immigration from countries harboring Islamic radicals?
Would it not be better to vet them over there - before they blow something up over here?
Unfortunately — these days politics trumps common sense.
I want you to remember one cold hard reality — Donald Trump is the product of a leadership vacuum in the Republican Party. So if you want to blame somebody for Mr. Trump’s candidacy — you can blame Establishment Republicans.
That's it in a nutshell, We need "common sense" not morals and values. And common sense tells these primitive thinkers that if "get rid of" all the people who are different from them they will have nothing to worry about. It's simple tribalism.
They are not interested in complicated arguments about how we need to be liked and admired or the necessity for allies. They don't care about "American values." They believe the Republican Party is refusing to do "what needs to be done" and so they turn to what feels to them like the logical answer: ship 'em out, close the doors, kill 'em. To people who think this way, the answer is to exterminate the threat.
And by the way, the bellicose saber rattling emanating from many of the so-called thoughtful people doesn't help to rebut that simple-mindedness. Here's Lindsay Graham, the guy who everyone turns to as the reasonable hawk because he says Trump is hurting national security with his ravings:
This chest beating just reinforces the idea that we can "kill 'em all". And we can't. They propagate even after their dead. "They" aren't just people. They're an idea.
Graham understands this but he's playing this game too.
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