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Trump Cults
Dope: When you run around saying everyone else is in a cult...
...the cult member is probably you. Unhealthy obsessions and all that.
Well part of Trump's base are Evangelicals who think he is a modern King Cyrus, a non-believer who is anointed by God and aids Christianity.
In 2018 they billed him as King Cyrus.
"Cyrus was born in the sixth century B.C.E. and became the first emperor of Persia. Isaiah 45 celebrates Cyrus for freeing a population of Jews who were held captive in Babylon. Cyrus is the model for a nonbeliever appointed by God as a vessel for the purposes of the faithful."
"Exit polling showed they were voting for Trump to get "Justices". So as a group they were voting to get Xtian and Conservative Justices in the judicial system and on the Supreme Court. That paid off. So he's the "anointed one" to them, or they wouldn't have gotten the justices.
Trump won an astonishing 81 percent of self-identified white Evangelicals nationally in the 2016 general election and an only slightly less overwhelming 76 percent in 2020. "
"[L]oyalty to Trump was evident in interviews with more than a dozen Iowa pastors in the wake of Trump's indictment. Each cited Trump's role in helping overturn Roe vs. Wade as central to the long-term rethinking about him since his first campaign. Several also pointed to Trump's recognizing Jerusalem as Israel's capital and moving the U.S. Embassy from Tel Aviv to the holy city.
'I appreciate the fact that, for what seems like the first time in my lifetime, someone did what they said they were going to do,' said the Rev. Kerry Jech of Marshalltown. 'With Donald Trump, what he promised us, he delivered on. That's one thing I can't get away from.'
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