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Alice Herman

Why experts say Christian nationalists’ rhetoric may spur violence

A man with a shaved mohawk sitting in crowd wearing T-shirt that says Proud Christian Nationalist, among people in red hats.
A Turning Point USA event in Phoenix, Arizona, on 6 June 2024. Photograph: Carlos Barría/Reuters

As the sky darkened on the National Mall in DC last Saturday, evangelical pastor Ché Ahn addressed the thousands of worshippers gathered there and issued a decree.

Trump, Ahn said, was a figure akin to the biblical King Jehu, and “Kamala Harris is a type of Jezebel, and as you know, Jehu cast out Jezebel”.

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