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Published January 30, 2017

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By suppressing debate about Islam, nationalism and terror, the left set the stage for todays backlash.

By Sohrab Ahmari, The Wall Street Journal

Donald Trumps proposed border fence and his order to suspend all immigration from terror-producing countries are dramatic and consequential. But theyre also palliative symbols. The message: Your days of anxiety are behind you. We will be a coherent nation once more.

Politicians across the West are saying the same thing in what is shaping up to be the widest rollback of the freedom of movement in decades.

Its not just right-wing nationalists like Marine Le Pen in France or Hungarys Viktor Orbn. Centrists get it, too. Some, like Angela Merkel, are still-reluctant restrictionists. Others, like Theresa May, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte and French presidential aspirant Franois Fillon, are more forthright. All have wised up to the popular demand for drastically lower immigration rates.

The irony is that freedom of movement is unraveling because liberals won central debatesabout Islamism, social cohesion and nationalism. Rather than give any ground, they accused opponents of being phobic and reactionary. Now liberals are reaping the rewards of those underhanded victories.

Liberals refused to acknowledge the link between Islamist ideology and terrorism. For eight years under President Obama, the U.S. government refused even to say Islamism, claiming ludicrously that U.S. service members were going to war against violent extremism. Voters could read and hear about jihadists offering up their actions to Allah before opening automatic fire on shoppers and blasphemous cartoonists.

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