Experts on why so many Republicans accept that "God gave us Trump" - eviltoast

How Donald Trump has evolved into a Messianic figure among the white religious right

Donald Trump is now publicly proclaiming that he is some type of messiah, a man chosen by God and Jesus Christ to do their bidding on Earth. For Trump, this means becoming America’s first dictator.

If Trump were a private citizen and not a former president and leader of a right-wing fascist movement, his claims to divine power would be viewed as the ramblings of an unwell person and de facto cult leader. Unfortunately, public opinion and other research shows that many millions of Americans actually believe that Trump is some type of divine figure, a man with a mandate from God. This is more evidence that Trumpism, like other forms of fascism and fake populism, is a form of collective pathology and emotional and mental unwellness on a societal scale.

Trump’s claims that he has a mandate from God should not be a surprise or in any way shocking: it is the predictable next step in a years-long pattern of megalomania, fabulism, malignant narcissism and other such negative behavior where he has claimed to have secret knowledge and insights that no one else possesses, and that his followers should just believe what he says and reject the facts and empirical reality itself.

Last week, Donald Trump took an even bigger step forward in his claims to being God’s leader on Earth, when he shared a campaign ad declaring that “God gave us Trump.”

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    1 year ago

    This is true, because nobody so perfectly embodies how hypocritical Christianity is than DJT. That all of their professed beliefs go right out the window as soon as somebody as convenient as Trump comes along, someone who completely contradicts all of their beliefs, is just indicative of what kind of faith Christianity is.

    You may not like it, but this is what peak Christianity looks like.