The Associated Press has a report today on Donald Trump’s “evolving” Muslim ban. The proposal was always short on details—“Because I am so politically correct, I would never be the one to say. You figure it out!” he wrote to the AP in an email—but every attempt to clarify has only confused the issue further.
“Frank Gaffney is someone I respect,” Ted Cruz said Monday, defending his foreign policy advisor. Frank Gaffney is a serious thinker.” Frank Gaffney thinks that President Barack Obama, Governor Chris Christie, and longtime Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin are part of a secret Muslim conspiracy.
On Tuesday, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump proposed that all Muslims should be banned from entering the United States “until our country’s representatives can figure out what is going on.” This is not a departure from Trump’s earlier rhetoric but its logical conclusion—but what logic is that, exactly?
