While the Republican Party, particularly with Trump's ascent, became the party of blatant and explicit political Islamophobia, the Democratic Party under President Obama stood as the party of expanding structural Islamophobic policy and programming. The latter, mirroring Obama's masterful speech at the mosque in Baltimore, used benign and gracious language toward Muslims to enlist them as informants in programming that invites great dangers into Muslim American communities.

XREF: Connects to broader critiques of 'soft' structural racism vs. explicit versions — parallels how surveillance operates through inclusive rhetoric rather than exclusion.

Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Unde…, loc. 327