On Monday starry-eyed Iowans gave their final rose to Donald Trump, the one they deemed a golden candidate among a dreary and dull lot.
Oblivious to this treasonous pig covered in mud, it certainly appears they are worshiping a golden calf.
The evangelical community who made up the majority of the 110,00 Caucus voters are unwaveringly faithful to Donald Trump. These white Christians have made it clear he is the chosen one, eternally grateful for his judicial appointments that resulted in dismantling a constitutional right to abortion
Gods Chosen Instrument
To further cement his messianic stature and secure his votes Trump shared a video claiming God chose him to be America’s caretaker.
The three-minute clip, posted to Truth Social the night before the Iowa Caucus, opens on grainy footage of a record turning on a record player, broadcasting a sermon in which a preacher intones: “And on 14 June 1946, God looked down on his planned paradise and said: ‘I need a caretaker.’
“So God gave us Trump,” the voiceover adds.
What follows –set against a photograph of Trump as a holy infant followed by a montage of scenes from his presidency – continues in a revised scripture narration.
“God said I need somebody willing to get up before dawn, fix this country, work all day, fight the Marxists, eat supper, then go to the Oval Office and stay past midnight at a meeting of the heads of state. So God made Trump,” the voiceover says.
“I need somebody with arms strong enough to wrestle the Deep State and yet gentle enough to deliver his own grandchild.”
And God said: “This was not a lampoon.”
Donald Trump has improbably been depicted in a golden Holy light.
He is their David and Goliath.
As President, Trump stands in a prayer circle with faith leaders during Evangelicals For Trump, Fla.
The Evangelical support may be puzzling on the surface – Trump, a corrupt adulterer twice divorced who is not religious, would seem an unlikely candidate for wide support from the devout.
But beginning in 2016 leaders in the evangelical movement, struck a Faustian deal with the reality star. In exchange for the support and endorsements of church leaders, Trump would provide evangelicals power in his administration. Through an evangelical advisory board they would help set social policy and do whatever they could to end the legal right to abortion.
Leaders in the church, in exchange, crafted a message that would make Trump more palatable to members.
To evangelicals, Trump was not a man of God-He was an instrument of God.
The bargain succeded: Trump won the support of evangelical voters and then delivered to them a Supreme Court that overturned Roe v Wade.
Save Christian America
A Christian Nation
Evangelicals cling to a fantasy of Christian America and Americans have a romantic fantasy of Evangelicals as moral upright people.
Since its founding in the late 1970s, the Christian right has projected an image that evangelicals are church-going, patriotic “values voters” who simply want to elect wholesome, Bible-oriented candidates who would enact “moral,” family-friendly policies.
Its leaders created organizations like the Moral Majority, the Christian Coalition, and their later imitators to persuade evangelical voters they needed to turn out in large numbers to save a Christian America on the verge of disappearing due to expanding civil rights and growing secularism.
For Evangelicals, it is an all-out spiritual war against demonic enemies of Christianity and America.
Trump embodies the us-vs.-them mentality of this battle between the godly and the satanic and uses it, along with his savior status, to his full advantage in falsely portraying his criminal prosecutions as the work of an evil, corrupt political system. For a base that has heard for decades that Christians are persecuted by secularists and that conservatives are under siege by out-of-control liberalism, Trump embodies their resentments.
Now, two impeachments, one insurrection, four criminal indictments, and countless incitements to violence later, they are supporting him not despite all that but because of it.
And they are willing to spend four years in a fantasy suite with him.
Editorial Cartoon David Horsey Los Angeles Times 2017