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

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

75% : Wallnau believes that Trump was 'Chosen by God,' just like the 6th Century C.E. Persian King, Cyrus the Great (see Isaiah 44:28-45:4).
64% : At this meeting Trump was able to play to the desires and vanities of some of the most famous evangelicals in the US, including Jerry Falwell Jr, Pastor Darrell Scott, and Reverend Robert Jeffress, convincing them that he had experienced a moment of true conversion.
61% : So God gave us Trump," the video starts.
61% : The video also depicts Trump as a loving husband and a devout Christian, who waits for the First Lady and attends church on Sundays.
58% : To call Trump a 'shepherd' corresponds to the belief that he was divinely chosen to lead the country.
57% : For Trump, this means becoming America's first dictator.
56% : The video portrays Trump as the answer to America's economic prosperity and leadership role on the global stage.
56% : Trump has skillfully woven this biblical language into his political career and actions, using it to legitimize his authority.
53% : "Trump has long had a solid base of support among evangelical Christians in the United States, and polls show that a high portion believes that God anointed him to rule -- even though he has never suggested having any strong personal faith.
52% : Now that he admits he is Jesus, Trump hopes to do better in a second term.
49% : The clip fuses images of the world (especially economic life) with the banal life of Trump, as God's representative on Earth.
49% : As the Peabody Award-winning television producer of non-fiction narrative programming and Founding Editor of Mediaite.com, Colby Hall, has written: This "creepy" and "messianic bit of messaging" will "cause many to cringe but others to fall to their knees in supplication."
47% : Thus, Trump appears as a normal ordinary man (he is not) but also as God's envoy and messenger.
47% : But more than anything, Trump cannot change - he's just becoming more the way he is.
47% : Furthermore, I noticed the use of a striking metaphor that describes Trump a shepherd who cares for his flock!
46% : Dr. Justin Frank is a former clinical professor of psychiatry at the George Washington University Medical Center and the author of "Trump on the Couch: Inside the Mind of the President.
45% : But Trump has not been the only recent politician to use a Paul Harvey-style of video as a promotional tool to garner support of religious conservative voters.
44% : He knows according to the latest polls that more Republicans say Trump is a person of faith compared to the Irish Catholic Biden who has worn religion on his sleeve for some eighty years.
43% : Unfortunately, public opinion and other research shows that approximately 30 percent of Americans (which translates into tens of millions of people) actually believe that Trump is some type of divine figure, a man with a mandate from God.
43% : It's not clear which of his grandchildren Trump is meant to have delivered.
42% : 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.
42% : The video also describes Trump as a workaholic who worked all hours of the night while president.
41% : Gregg Barak is an emeritus professor of criminology and criminal justice at Eastern Michigan University and author of "Criminology on Trump."
41% : Many on the religious right see Trump as a vessel who will adopt a moral agenda in office, no matter what opposition he faces.
39% : The idea, seemingly endorsed by Trump himself, that "God gave us Trump" is only viable presented to the followers of the cult, for the rest of the universe is obviously farfetched and pathetic and yet it deserves our attention.
38% : 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.
38% : The Trump cult conflates faith with nationalism and extremist messianic ideology.
35% : The video also claimed that Trump attended church services every Sunday despite no evidence of this.
34% : Upon seeing this latest propagandistic video by Trump and his "true believers" there have been at least three reactions.
33% : Trump must be incarcerated in the fullest sense of the word.
28% : Trump must be incarcerated now, before he even stands trial.
27% : Trump has thus evolved into a Messianic figure among the primarily white religious right, who is fulfilling a divine mission -- a conspiracy theory that he opportunistically promotes himself, portraying himself as an angry spiritual leader who alone can rid America of its deep state enemies.
26% : 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.
24% : Because Trump who understands the polls perhaps better than most pollsters do also understands the gullibility, absurdity, and believability of the American voters, Republican or Democratic.
23% : Trump must be incarcerated as soon as possible because he remains an ever-increasing danger to our nation.
18% : The irony in all this is unmistakable since Trump is hardly a religious man.
17% : So why would Trump and company post a satirical version of Paul Harvey's famous "So God Made a Farmer" video in which Trump the lifelong atheist is playing the role of God's son?
13% : The narrator goes on to frame Trump as a messianic figure who was created by God to "fight the Marxists" and "call out the fake news for their tongues as sharp as a serpent's.
13% : "Donald Trump feels like a broken record.
11% : "As Cohen writes in his first book on Trump, Disloyal: A Memoir, a few minutes after all of the evangelical leaders had ritualistically laid their hands on Trump's germophobic body and had left the 25th floor, Donald popped into Cohen's office and had this to say, "Can you believe people believe that bullshit?"André Gagné, Professor and Chair of Theological Studies at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada, and author of "American Evangelicals for Trump: Dominion, Spiritual Warfare, and the End Times.

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