Behold a pale horse… with golden sneakers and orange hair…
Donald John Trump’s rally audiences are his congregation, and the Orange Despot their pastor as he delivers a roughly 15-minute finale that evokes an evangelical altar call, the emotional tradition that concludes some Christian services in which attendees come forward to commit to their savior.
Throughout the course of Holy Week, we witnessed numerous examples, beyond his pedaling of his $59.99 bible, of Trump’s political creed bringing brought forth with stark examples of his effort to transform the Republican Party into a kind of Church of Trump.
His continual success at portraying his 91 legal indictments as persecutions – and warning, without merit, that his followers could be targeted next – has fueled devout enthusiasm for his candidacy and placed him, once again, in a position to recapture the White House.
As candidate Trump, he follows the well-worn script of megachurch preachers who gather up followers and their money. Boy Orange gets his followers’ adrenaline stoked first with music and then with exhortation. Crowd members – cult followers – feed off each other…they will be the instruments of their own demise, clueless to what they are bringing upon ALL our futures.
The real question is NOT whether Trump, using the tools of demagoguery can subvert democracy, but whether there remains enough Americans to stop him…?!!
Lobster on the Prairie 