Michelle Bachmann wrote:[Trump] is highly biblical, and I would say to your listeners, we will in all likelihood never see a more godly, biblical president again in our lifetime. So we need to be not only praying for him, we need to support him, in my opinion, in every possible way that we can.
If smiting your enemies is biblical, Trump's actions can be seen as biblical, but that is not exactly the first word that springs to mind when describing our President. There seem to be 2 rails down the tracks to the Christian Crazy Town Station: The first thought begins with 'God has brought us an imperfect instrument, but one that is here to do God's will." I'm beginning to think of this as the Oskar Schindler theory of Donald Trump.
But the view of Trump as the imperfect instrument is beginning to morph into a portrayal of the President's faults as virtues. He is a man whose biblical sense of purpose gives him the moral authority to override the Constitution in the name of all that is just and holy. Don't think of it as a wall. Think of it as the Red Sea defending Moses from the Egyptians.
Trump and the Christian Right are not ideological soulmates, they are narrative soul mates.
I predict you will be seeing the somewhat contradictory strains of thought more frequently in the next 18 months:
