This paragraph from before Trump’s election now looks ominously prescient about his ability to inspire violence

With just days left before the 2016 election and with Donald Trump projected to have a 33 percent chance of winning the presidency, Lawfare writers Quinta Jurecic and Ben Wittes published a paragraph that now looks disturbingly prescient about the movement of Trumpism:

Jurecic shared the paragraph over the weekend after the recent mass shootings, writing: “[Wittes] and I wrote this four days before the 2016 election. I’ve never really stopped thinking about it.”

The piece itself analogized the movement behind Trump to the Muslim Brotherhood. Its point wasn’t to say that the movements were equivalent, but that they had similar functions as political ideologies and potential drivers of extremist violence.

View the complete August 6 article by Cody Fenwick on the AlterNet website here.