‘The venom of our age’: James Carville on the danger of Mike Johnson’s Christian nationalism

The veteran Democratic strategist discusses the ‘hypocrisy’ of his fellow Louisianan and the solace found in his own Catholic faith

As hard-right movements rattle or control European governments, the words of George Steiner animate James Carville.

“Nationalism is the venom of our age,” Steiner wrote in his 1965 essay on the Holocaust, A Kind of Survivor. “It has brought Europe to the edge of ruin.”