Trump, Cruz, and the NRA quite naturally see no connection between the recent massacres and America’s incredibly lax gun regulations; instead, they attribute mass killings to “evil.” Since America is more, not less, religious than other comparable countries with no mass killing problem, our exceptionalism cannot logically be traced to poor values education. So where, then, did the evil come from? The only plausible answer, from the perspective of the right, is that the 1619 Project crowd is correct: America is an inherently evil empire.
And you thought they were flag-waving chicken hawks!