Trump’s Crusade: Christian Nationalism and the Making of a Holy War

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“Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.”

– Isaac Asimov

Israel and the United States are now at war with Iran, a conflict framed by both leaders through a stark and self-serving moral binary. In the words of Benjamin Netanyahu, it is cast as a “necessary fight between good and evil.” For Donald Trump, the illegality of the war is beside the point. It is waged instead in the ideological spirit and cruelty of the Crusades...