'Lord, Help Us Make America Great Again'

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : But this analogy seems to have outlived its usefulness to the religious right: A 2020 Pew Research Center survey found that 62 percent of Republicans viewed Trump as "morally upstanding," and in a Deseret News poll commissioned last year, 64 percent said they believed he is a "person of faith."
53% : Cyrus isn't mentioned, but Trump does get compared to righteous, prophetic heroes of the Bible, including Esther, Solomon, and David.
52% : Indeed, rather than asking God to make Trump an instrument of his will, most of the prayers start from the assumption that he already is.
47% : But the prayers offered before Trump speaks illuminate this perilous moment in American politics just as well as anything he says from the podium.
44% : After a gunman shot at Trump during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, in July, both Democrats and Republicans prayed for the former president and for the country he hopes to lead.
43% : Soon Trump appeared to rapturous applause and Lee Greenwood's "God Bless the U.S.A."For all the exhaustive coverage of Trump's campaign rallies, even before the assassination attempt at one of them in July, relatively little attention has been paid to the prayers that start each one.
36% : From the January/February 2024 issue: If Trump winsTo understand the evolving psychology and beliefs of Trump's religious supporters, I attempted to review every prayer offered at his campaign events since he announced in November 2022 that he would run again.
32% : "No one prays for Trump to do right; they pray that God will do right by Trump," Onishi told me.
29% : "Cyrus was a way of acknowledging, 'I know this is an immoral person, but he could still do some good,' " Russell Moore, an evangelical theologian and the editor of Christianity Today, who has been critical of Trump, told me.
20% : "Trump's supporters attribute America's fall from grace to a variety of national sins old and new -- prayer bans in public schools, illegal immigration, pro-transgender policies, the purported rigging of a certain recent election.
12% : "From the April 2018 issue: Trump and the evangelical temptationWith Trump's goodness presumed, the criminal charges against him are cast not as evidence of potential wrongdoing but as a sign of victimhood.

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