He jump-started America’s plunge into the Trumpapocalypse, argues James Carroll persuasively at Tom Dispatch.com
“The Crusades were, of course, a centuries-long medieval catastrophe. Bush’s Global War on Terror, in contrast, has already wreaked comparable havoc in a paltry 17 years, leading to almost unimaginable mayhem abroad and a moral collapse at home personified by President Donald J. Trump.”