"A nation," he heard himself say, "consists of its laws...
*This, in the Blue Ant books, is Bigend's epitaph.
"What did you say?"
"Are you really so scared of terrorists that you'll dismantle the structures that made America what it it is?" Milgrim heard himself ask this with a sense of deep wonder
...
"If you are, you let the terrorist win...
Move from the age of 9/11 to that of Trump, and...
Gibson nailed this fifteen years ago; it's been going for longer still...
And yeah: @GreatDismal can both really write and really think, and the anticipation of events that emerges from that combination can be f**king frightening.