From Paris to Pittsburgh: Politics of terrorism shift against Trump

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The president credited ISIS with fueling his 2016 rise but has struggled in response to recent domestic attacks.

By ANDREW RESTUCCIA 10/29/2018 08:03 PM EDT

No one was talking about terrorism when President Donald Trump sought to remind Americans about it earlier this month, warning without evidence that a migrant caravan in Central America headed toward the U.S. border had been infiltrated by “unknown Middle Easterners.”

It was a short-lived attempt to revive fears about Islamic terrorism, one quickly turned upside-down by two major domestic attacks with no apparent links beyond America’s borders, and which Trump has struggled to address politically

While the radicals of the Islamic State, also known as ISIS, were an ideal foil for Trump during his 2016 campaign — when he fired up supporters with talk of ruthless airstrikes, a Muslim ban and even torture — he now finds himself awkwardly confronting a home-grown threat for which critics say he bears some responsibility, and which defies the simple-sounding solutions he offered for fighting ISIS.

In political terms, Trump has been a victim of his own success: The multinational military campaign launched against ISIS in 2014 has succeeded in devastating the radical terrorist group’s infrastructure and has recaptured nearly all the territory ISIS once controlled in Syria and Iraq. The pace of the group’s attacks in Europe and the U.S. have dramatically slowed.

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1. When you make "terrorism" into a non-white/Muslim thing THEY do, this is what was going to happen