Weekly Roundup: 9/11, Mamdani, and MAGA's Holy War
Summary
Host Brad Onishi critiques Donald Trump’s false 9/11 survival claims and Rudy Giuliani’s Islamophobic objection to Mayor Mamdani attending the 25th-anniversary memorial. Onishi argues that the American right’s insistence that Muslims cannot be "real Americans" mirrors historical persecution of Japanese Americans and Buddhist leaders. Guest Holly Berkeley Fletcher analyzes how the post-Cold War malaise of the 1990s led to a turn inward, allowing 9/11 to amplify culture wars and accelerate the rise of Christian nationalism by framing Islam as an existential threat to American identity.
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