In the view of many—including myself—the Republican anti-Muslim jihad of Donald Trump and his right-wing political allies has actually made our world a more dangerous place. It has sadly become a normative fact that Islamophobia is now the norm, not the exception, in the United States. It has also become a central part of the Republican Party’s platform, which it remains today.

QUESTION: What evidence supports the claim that Islamophobia is now the 'norm, not the exception' in the US? Is this measurable or largely rhetorical?

SEED: Potential essay angle: examining how political rhetoric transforms social prejudice into institutional norm — the mechanism by which campaign language becomes party platform policy.

Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Gl…, loc. 353