‘The venom of our age’: James Carville on the danger of Mike Johnson’s Christian nationalism

James Carville, a graduate of Louisiana State University and its law school, wears the Tigers’ gold and purple shirts in many of his TV appearances. Photograph: Andrew Harnik/AP

As hard-right movements rattle or control European governments, the words of George Steiner animate James Carville.

“Nationalism is the venom of our age,” Steiner wrote in his 1965 essay on the Holocaust, A Kind of Survivor. “It has brought Europe to the edge of ruin.”