Trump followed Fox's lead. He parroted what he heard on TV. He lied and lied, but rather than suffer the consequences, his lies were excused and supported and even celebrated by his media enablers.
It is obviously sensible the crossing of a border ought not to protect a criminal from the consequences of his crime.
There's something about the intimacy of comics that gives you a false bravado; you don't always consider the consequences.
When you dehumanize a group, there's lasting consequences because they know that they're being dehumanized.
Most of the stuff I've ever said is pretty insignificant and, by and large, has been said off the cuff and without much thought to the potential consequences.
Facebook captures examples of inequality and makes them available for endless replay. Twitter links the voiceless to newsmakers. Instagram immortalizes the faces and consequences of discrimination. Isolated cruelties are yoked into a powerful narrative of marginalization that spurs a common cause.
We must be honest in acknowledging that neither Germany nor the U.S. has the luxury of assuming that we can skate by on half-measures in Afghanistan and Pakistan and not risk suffering the consequences.
Food is available, but it cannot be shipped into an area, so the people in that area suffer the consequences.
Sooner or later, jihadist-style terror and WMD are going to come together and the consequences could be horrendous.
Sooner or later, jihadist-style terror and WMD are going to come together and the consequences could be horrendous.