New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman warned on Thursday that President Donald Turmp’s second administration appears to be pushing America toward its third civil war, citing the “flying elephants” that the administration keeps letting out.
To Friedman, these flying elephants are incidents that reveal “something very different is going on” that people need to pay attention to. Friedman called attention to a 33-page National Security memo the Trump administration published last week as the latest flying elephant that “no one should ignore.”
In the document, the Trump administration described America’s allies in Europe as democracies that “undermine political liberty and sovereignty, migration policies that are transforming the continent and creating strife, censorship of free speech and suppression of political opposition, cratering birthrates, and loss of national identities and self-confidence.”
The language the administration used alarmed Friedman, as he noted in a new column.
“That is a flying elephant no one should ignore,” he wrote. “It is language unlike any previous U.S. national security survey, and to my mind it reveals a deep truth about this second Trump administration: how much it came to Washington to fight America’s third civil war, not to fight the West’s new cold war.”
“Yes, in my view, we are in a new civil war over a place called home,” he added.
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