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Max Boot: What is happening to our country?

How can we live in an America where a gunman can barge into a synagogue and open fire, reportedly screaming "All Jews must die"?

How can we live in an America where someone - the FBI has arrested a Trump supporter named Cesar Sayoc - can send pipe bombs to, among others, former presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., financier George Soros, former CIA director John Brennan and CNN?

This is not what America is about. We are a country dedicated to freedom of speech, press, assembly and religion. We are a nation of immigrants from all corners of the globe brought together in mutual dedication to the "self-evident" truths "that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.