Politics / Lacking a clear rationale for the attack on Iran, Trumpists are increasingly talking like crusaders. Jeet Heer Donald Trump has often praised William McKinley, a White House predecessor who shared the current president’s love of tariffs and territorial expansion.

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The United States and Israel pounded Iran on Tuesday with what the Pentagon and Iranians on the ground said were the most intense airstrikes of the war, despite global markets betting that President Donald Trump will seek to end the conflict soon.