Donald Trump and a nation on the verge of a nervous breakdown

The frontrunner for the GOP presidential nomination wants to bar all Muslims from entering this country. Has the paranoid style in American politics ever been worse?

Donald Trump has taken advantage of a terrified nation.
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How will the liberal democracies of the West — and the liberal democracy of the United States in particular — respond to the stresses and strains of life in an interconnected world that's continually buffeted by unpredictable, and perhaps unpreventable, acts of spectacular violence?

The truth is we have no idea.

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Damon Linker

Damon Linker is a senior correspondent at TheWeek.com. He is also a former contributing editor at The New Republic and the author of The Theocons and The Religious Test.