It's been interesting to watch the intellectual journey of evangelicals when it comes to this guy, who is without a doubt the most gravely immoral person to ever hold that office. They used to claim they knew he was immoral but he was a 'baby Christian' and was slowly coming around. Seems like they gave up on that lie though and now just treat Trump as some sort of messianic figure.
Humans and reality were never married.
Reality can be a fun mistress at times, but our true nature is tribal, religious, nuttery. In other words, pure fucking insanity. We make up whatever balms our Egos. They want power, Trump is a means to an end... so Trump is the next coming of Jesus. There is a process the brain will go through to gradually, but increasingly, justify that last statement. Because they ID with Trump.... the Ego will demand deification. Worship. Makes the man out to be an extension of themselves. My own local MAGA take anything negative on Trump as a personal attack on them. His values are their values. He tells you to jump off a cliff, you ask how high?
You can see this behavior in humans throughout the world today, and throughout history. There will always be bootlickers, even for Genocide. The trick is to make it your boots, but in our hubris we forgot just how god damn stupid people actually are. We deified ourselves and our nation as if we were better than everyone else. Great and glorious America could never stoop to the evils of... mankind. As if we were somehow not human. Or that our people would always trust in, support, and maintain our... laws and institutions.
Heh, hindsight makes America's self worship really fucking sad, doesn't it? Opened ourselves up for attack from within. Instead of working to safeguard the minds of our people.
If we were a great nation, Republicans would have thrown Trump out on his ass in 2016. They did not. Afterwards they turned and became a Cult for him and him alone. Not an American political party built on certain ideas and policies. Oh no, a Cult. Built for one man and one man alone. For the Dark Lord does not share power.
We now move to make ourselves like the Russians and North Koreans. If there is strong enough division, perhaps we could fracture and become Afghanistan. With the Taliban and all.