Michael Flynn: God’s Trumpist Warrior and the March to Armageddon
I wrote about Michael Flynn early into Trump’s juggernaut, when he was still hovering around the pinnacles of power, and everyone was wondering what the hell was wrong with Flynn besides battle fatigue and a violent case of Islamophobia. On balance, I think that Trump’s transition team, directed at every stage by Steve Bannon, selected dependably authoritarian, fundamentally amoral, ethically gutted, religiously and militarily indoctrinated, fundamentalist Catholic yes-men to surround his (and Mercer’s and Putin’s) select president-elect, much as Howard Hughes selected Mormon goons to be secretive and loyal (though they ultimately ganged up on him, turned the tables, utilized his fortunes for their own ideological aims, and became his handlers and jailers), and much as Indira Gandhi fatally employed Sikh religious warriors as her closest protection unit and personal bodyguards (to her ultimate demise when they conspired to assassinate her for similarly ideological, theological and nationalistic reasons).
Using Flynn as exemplar, I showed how nutty religious indoctrination and an insidiously imperialistic missionizing ideology made for an amoral crazy man careering around the world like a very dangerous nut case — a deeply deluded ‘warrior of God’ in his own mind. “WASHINGTON — When it comes to religious affiliation, a distinctive…
