nationalism

It suggests we’re entering an era of climate nationalism, where the right could be poised to reclaim climate change as an issue of its own.

And the terrorists that came after him — like Payton Gendron, the self-declared “eco-fascist” who killed 10 Black shoppers in a Tops Friendly Market in Buffalo, New York, in 2022 and described his crime as a pursuit of “green nationalism.”

Connections with Christian nationalism — an Old Testament-based worldview fusing Christian and American identities — are similarly strengthened.

But it’s cold comfort against the violent truth of white nationalism.

Some are ideological die-hards yearning for Christian nationalism, but others just wanted the thrill of identifying with a shock jock, sowing mayhem, and putting a Black woman in power back in her place.