> Although those countries aren't affected by the ban...
So, you have not yet been personally affected? That's like saying German citizens have been personally affected by this action.
If one has to come up with new contingencies based on radical shifts in the likelihood of extreme events, then of course they are directly affected.
If this trend continues, it wouldn't be too far fetched for the US to require "extreme vetting" of German document holders to enter the US.
This false equivalence convinced people to vote for Trump. No way Hillary would have implemented this ban.
"false equivalence" is a non-argument used by Hilary supporters to sidestep proving that she is objectively better than Trump, after it is correctly pointed out that she is not an angel from heaven either.
> No way Hillary would have implemented this ban.
This is a misleading statement that you can't even prove, because it requires you to either be a mind reader or being able to travel to an alternate reality. For the sake of argument though let's assume that she wouldn't have performed this action, can you prove that she wouldn't have done worst things? She gets money from Saudi Arabia, you would have a hard time proving that she can do no bad.
There is a real chance that you'll get more fresh blood than you are bargaining for.
When you start running roughshod over peoples lives violence is just around the corner and should be expected.
Action -> reaction, it's as old as physics.
Of course that plays right into Trumps hands.
In the Senate, this will get tough, because the majority of positions in the senate available for reelection is mostly Democrat (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_elections,_2018).
And even if Congress Republican majority is broken down, Trump and Pence will still be able to rule with Presidential orders, much like Obama did.
The ban on muslims is not something he decided "at his whim", but something he promised he'd do if he won the presidency.
Turns out he did win, and he's delivering on his promises.
But the time for talk has passed. I don't think very much is going to happen because Trump is empowered by his election victory, and he won't listen to anyone. Has he ever listened to anyone, even during his celebrity-only days? To think that you can actively engage him in a conversation is not the way to do this.
What is needed is to prepare for the 2018 and 2020 elections RIGHT NOW. We need an organized social media structure where all of the positive, democracy-pro candidates in every electoral district gets publicized and supported. EDUCATE YOUNG PEOPLE WITH GREAT POLITICAL CANDIDATES AND MOTIVATE THEM TO VOTE. I'm not talking about just voting for the Democrats. Democrats are just as bad as the Republicans. We need a new voice that actually cares about progressive, democratic values, and actually believes in what they say. Not the same, tired politicians that play us for fools and leave us with the best of two evils.
Organize now, smash the two-party oligarchy and elect REAL POLITICIANS, hopefully young people that care about the US, not people who want to enrich themselves from the teat of government funding. You could argue that Trump was that candidate for half of Americans, as well as Sanders for the other (nearly) half. We need fresh blood, and we need to start now.
The only way to stop Trump is to silence him by breaking up the Republican Congress majority, and it's only in 2 years.