 Thus after a school shooting in February 2017, Donald Trump (@realDonaldTrump) tweeted that “we must keep ‘evil’ out of our country”. (Despite the quotation marks, it was clear that he meant evil the entity, and not “evil” the word.) After the Las Vegas mass shooting in October 2017, Trump and many others in leadership referred to the event as “an act of pure evil” (Matuson 2017). Less recently, George W. Bush referred to Iran, Iraq, and North Korea as the “Axis of Evil” in a state of the union address on 29 January 2002 (see Other Internet Resources), and Ronald Reagan repeatedly characterized the Soviet Union as “the evil empire”, famously at a speech on 8 March 1983 to the National Association of Evangelicals (see Other Internet Resources).