Saturday’s post was written with America in mind, but it occurred to me thereafter that it also applied to Iran. The regime believes it has a divine right to rule, but has little public support, so it cut off any possibility of peaceful change through the system by disqualifying any plausible moderate candidates in the recent election. The only conceivable means for the millions of dissatisfied Iranians of modifying the (obviously failed) system is through widespread violence. B x H = D.
What this shows is that there is a degree of functional commonality between the Christian nationalist right in America and the ayatollahs. If you’re a GOP supporter, and the analogy makes you uncomfortable, too bad for you.