Trump is Scrambling to Find His Religion Again

But Donald Trump’s coronation at the Republican National Convention was not “just” a fascist spectacle for his personality cult to show its unending loyalty to him. It was also a type of political-religious ceremony where Donald Trump was even more fully made into a hero who was sent by “God” to be a martyr-warrior-prophet for militant right-wing “Christianity” and its increasingly violent behavior and hostile attitudes towards secular pluralistic democracy and society—and modernity itself. After the unsuccessful attempt on Trump’s life last week in Butler, Pennsylvania, these cult-like beliefs have hardened and the threats of violence (both explicit and implied) and paranoia against some imagined “they” who are “persecuting” Trump and his MAGA people have greatly increased.