Do you remember the sense of national unity we had after 9/11? As much as that was a scary time for our country, I long for days where we could put aside our political differences and come together as a nation. We showed al Qaeda that while they could bring down buildings, the core of America remained unshaken.
There was, perhaps no truer way to described what happened than when President George W. Bush said, “A terrorist attack designed to tear us apart has instead bound us together as a nation.”
Sadly, that national unity didn’t last very long, and I dare say it’s likely never going to happen again. Political arguments that often manifested itself with one side comparing the other to Nazis and Hitler gradually started equating their political enemies with al Qaeda and Osama Bin Laden.
For example, a couple of years ago, Rep. Eric Swalwell compared Donald Trump to Osama Bin Laden.
“Well, Osama Bin Laden did not enter U.S. soil on Sept. 11, but it was widely acknowledged that he was responsible for inspiring the attack on our country. And the president, with his words, using the word ‘fight’… that is hate speech that inspired and radicalized people to storm the capital,”…
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