What Would Trump Do If There Was a Terrorist Attack That He Could Blame on Iran? Think Patriot Act On Steroids

[TomCADem]

Look at how Trump has rolled back civil liberties based on the pretext that the US is being "invaded" by undocumented immigrants. Think of how Netanyahu used the terrorist attack by Hamas as basis for engaging in genocidal operations in Gaza. It makes you wonder whether Trump is purposely escalating tensions in the middle east with the hope that some terrorist group will target the US the way Hamas did Israel.

Before Hamas's attack on Israel, there a lot of folks in the progressive American Jewish community who were very sympathetic to the plight of Palestinians in Gaza and opposed right wing Israeli efforts to expand into Gaza. However, the Hamas attacks caused many moderates to quiet their opposition, which paved the way for Netanyahu to dramatically expand efforts to engage in no--holds bar effort to eliminate Hamas even if this means engaging in genocide.

In the US, we have seen how Presidents can fail-up. Dubya rode his failure to prevent the 9-11 terrorist attacks into sky high approval ratings based on his belated efforts to respond, which resulted in an unrelated war in Iraq. Likewise, the greater Trump's failure to prevent a likely terrorist attack in response to mercurial decisions in the Middle East, the greater the pretext he will have to erode civil liberties. Trump might not be popular in New York City, but if there is a major terrorist attack on NYC, most New Yorkers would jump on Trump band wagon to bomb the crap out of whatever boogeyman Trump points the finger at, because we love our scapegoats. Indeed, many of this Board would likely just turn inward, and blame Democrats for not doing enough to stop Trump.

Heck, perhaps Trump should just cut to the chase, and start laying off TSA workers, burn the Koran during an interview, and claim that he is not only a Christian messiah, but the second coming of Mohammed, then he just needs to shuffle back into the oval office to wait for a slightest hint of a terrorist attack so that he can starting calling in armed forces to occupy areas of political resistance while conservatives cheer him on in the name of freedom and progressives focus on blaming Democratic leaders for not doing enough to inspire them to do something beyond complaining on liberal message boards.