Touting a terrible vision: What awaits if Biden loses… or even wins?

Donald Trump’s priorities for a second term are increasingly clear. The melodies he sings are familiar, but the lyrics are becoming explicit.

A surprising revelation is his hierarchy of the dangers facing the United States: “I believe that the internal enemy, in many cases, is much more dangerous to our country than the external enemies of China, Russia and various others who would be called enemies depending on who “He is the president,” he said in an extensive interview published by Time magazine last week.

So the greatest danger is internal, according to the Republican presidential candidate. And he used the phrase – “the enemy within” – three times. It wasn’t a coincidence.

It’s an expression that resonates in the history of repression, most famously in a 1950 speech by the rabid Senator Joseph McCarthy.