However, the Trump administration should not be viewed as a marked departure or outlier, but rather as a more transparent and brazen step in a progression that has been, in great part, enabled by the stated war-on-terror aims and programs of the previous two administrations.

XREF: Challenges the common framing of Trump as a radical break; connects to broader literature on the continuity of the security state across administrations. Builds on: "Counter-radicalization programs deputized local police as national security agents"

Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Unde…, loc. 129