In the first presidential election since 1968, domestic tranquility is a burning issue. Domestic tranquility, that lofty term from civic classes and Saturday morning Schoolhouse Rock, weighs heavy on the minds of Americans who probably never considered it before. We have no choice after San Bernardino, Chattanooga, Dallas, Baton Rouge, Orlando, Brooklyn, Paris, Nice, Baltimore and Brussels all became a bloody blur of escalating violence. But even in 1968, threats to domestic tranquility were not as severe and not as dangerous. That’s why “Make America Safe Again” was the central theme at Monday’s session of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland. What makes 2016 different is that the bloodshed is part of a barbaric struggle to unravel Western institutions and the rule of law. The seemingly random violence is the vanguard of two not unrelated ideologies. Both the radical Islamic attacks on domestic tranquility and the racialist attacks on the police aim to undermine the American constitutional order.
http://nationalinterest.org/feature/how-obama-has-eroded-americas-domestic-tranquility-17072
