Cartoons: Trumped and terrorized

Seems to me Donald Trump's current popularity is due to his talent for saying out loud what many people in America feel but don't have the courage to say. Pretty sad, huh? Today's cartoons look at Trump and terrorism. Also sad is how we're being educated in the language of terrorism: radicalized (also look at the talk page) and suicide belt.

Remember when Trump said that, as President, he would build a wall between the US and Mexico and make Mexico pay for it?

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Mike Luckovich, The Week

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We've progressed from Trump the Petty and Petulant Isolationist to Trump the Terrorist.

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Nate Beeler, The Week

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Meanwhile, 'ISIS' (vs. 'ISIL' vs. 'Islamic State') gloats.

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Walt Handelsman, The Week

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Republicans, especially the Tea Party, have been radicalized for some time now.

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Jack Ohman, The Week

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Meanwhile, Earth bears our misdeeds.

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Mike Keefe, The Week

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I quote Thomas Paine (The Crisis):

THESE are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated.

Terrorism is tyranny from within.


-- Marge