There are a distressing number of vivid parallels between Adolf Hitler and Donald Trump. As I have said before, they differ in that Hitler had principles (bad ones, but principles nonetheless), whereas Trump will simply do whatever is in his own best interest.
That being said, their respective followers are followers for similar reasons. They want a secular Messiah who has their absolute trust. It is interesting that, disregarding the biblical advice on putting trust in princes (don't....), many Christians both then and now were and are happy to give their leader the trust they allegedly owed only to God.
This first picture is a 1941 Nazi poster that announces: “The Führer is always right.”
And this one is from the MAGA hattery.
In both cases, the message is that the leader is infallible. This theory has never turned out well.
The irrationality of the thinking is clear from the recent MAGA dissention about the Epstein files. The Trump minions who hold power at least had the integrity to announce that despite their previous fulminations, there was no deep state conspiracy. MAGA faithful were alarmed. Some even began to doubt the divinity of Donald Trump.
They were, however, troubled not in the least by Trump’s determined opposition to all Christian virtues. In other words, doubting their faith in things that are not so is much worse than ignoring the Christianity many claim to adhere to.
