by C. J. Hopkins \/ January 10th, 2019<\/p>\n
Remember when the War on Terror ended and the War on Populism began? That\u2019s OK, no one else does.<\/p>\n
It happened in the Summer of 2016, also known as \u201cthe Summer of Fear<\/a>.\u201d The War on Terror was going splendidly. There had been a series of \u201cterrorist attacks,\u201d in Orlando, Nice, W\u00fcrzberg, Munich, Reutlingen, Ansbach, and Saint-\u00c9tienne-du-Rouvray, each of them perpetrated by suddenly \u201cself-radicalized\u201d \u201clone wolf terrorists\u201d (or \u201cnon-terrorist terrorists<\/a>\u201c) who had absolutely no connection to any type of organized terrorist groups prior to suddenly \u201cself- radicalizing\u201d themselves by consuming \u201cterrorist content\u201d on the Internet. It seemed we were entering a new and even more terrifying phase of the Global War on Terror, a phase in which anyone could be a \u201cterrorist\u201d and \u201cterrorism\u201d could mean almost anything. <\/span><\/p>\n This broadening of the already virtually meaningless definition of \u201cterrorism\u201d was transpiring just in time for Obama to hand off the reins to Hillary Clinton, who everyone knew was going to be the next president, and who was going to have to bomb the crap out of Syria in response to the non-terrorist terrorist threat. The War on Terror (or, rather, \u201cthe series of persistent targeted efforts to dismantle specific networks of violent extremists that threaten America<\/a>,\u201d as Obama rebranded it) was going to continue, probably forever. The Brexit referendum had just taken place, but no…<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n