When Donald Trump says “evil won’t prevail” on Easter, it doesn’t just sound like faith.
It turns faith into a weapon.
The most dangerous people in history didn’t believe in evil. They believed they’d been chosen to end it.
When Trump says “evil won’t prevail” on Easter, he’s not expressing faith.
He’s borrowing the grammar of sacrifice , a story about suffering, transformation, restraint and running a war through it.
Easter works as a frame precisely because it’s unchallenged. Nobody argues with resurrection. So if your enemy is “evil,” and God already picked the winner, then Iran isn’t a state with interests and leverage and forty million people who didn’t choose their government.
It’s a category and categories don’t negotiate, they get defeated.
This is how moral certainty becomes operational. Not in the decision to use force, that’s a calculation. In the decision that the other side forfeited their claim to complexity.
History doesn’t run short on believers. It runs short on hesitation.
The wars that destroyed the most weren’t fought by people who loved destruction. They were fought by people absolutely convinced they were the cure.
When we reflect on past revolutions and protests, it seems as though they were much more effective at bringing about positive change than today. Why is this? Using a mix of cultural and environmental factors, I argue why gen z is having trouble starting a revolution we desperately need.
