Brenda Walker, reporting on the Chelsea Bomber case below, is linking to a Fox News story, but even Fox News is calling Ahmad Khan Rahimi a "New Jersey Man". He’s an immigrant from Afghanistan.
Twitter erupted, which is what Twitter does. Donald Trump told a crowd there had been a bombing and we had to get tough, folks. A sideshow battle blew up over who had been quickest to call it, as if this were some game show or reality TV. Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey, who has sequestered his reason and decency so he can flack for Mr. Trump, used the Chelsea blast to attack Hillary Clinton on Sunday TV, darkly suggesting that she and her party, and the president, were somehow responsible….
Which of course they were — Obama, Mrs. Clinton, and their party all support mass Muslim immigration — Trump opposes it. The New York Times went on:
The right response to this constant, unending, low-level threat of sudden violence is to stay vigilant and reasonable, to clean up the damage, care for the injured, look out for one another, and elect leaders who will address the challenge with sanity and good judgment. And avoid the wrong responses: A police-state overreaction would be equally damaging in its own way by adding to the intolerance and suspicion that can foster radicalization, isolation and hatred.
The "vigilance" they're calling for wasn’t against Muslim terrorists, it was against normal American with normal ideas about Muslim immigration — and their candidate, Donald Trump.
