Why the reaction to Trump’s travel ban is different this time
The US president's ban has failed to register the same fierce resistance as his similar move of January 2017
Many of Donald Trump's critics may have become so inured to the treadmill of iniquities that his second presidency has brought, that a long-expected travel ban announced against citizens of a dozen countries failed to register the same intense shock and outrage as his similar move made during his first presidency.
Of course, there was condemnation. Adam Schiff, a Democratic senator from California, accused the president of bigotry", while Chris Murphy, his Democratic colleague from Connecticut, suggested the timing may have been designed to deflect attention from the negative economic impact of his Big Beautiful Bill" currently wending its way through Congress.
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