When President Obama visited the Islamic Society of Baltimore in 2016, he recalled that “Islam has always been a part of America.”
As Donald Trump struggles to dismantle Obama's legacy, he is quick to challenge the basic premises of his predecessor's tenure and thinking. But Trump cannot suggest that Obama's rumination on Islam was “fake news.” Nor can Trump or his allies on a divided Supreme Court claim that there is anything “American” about establishing a separate set of rules for Islamic refugees that—no matter what label may be attached to it—“really is a Muslim ban.”
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