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Robert Jones, founder and chief executive of the Public Religion Research Institute, noted that his group’s polling has found that many Republicans have elevated Trump to near-deity status. In an email, Jones wrote:
”Just ahead of the election, a majority (55 percent) of white evangelicals and a plurality (47 percent) of Republicans said they saw Trump as “being called by God to lead at this critical time in our country.”
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Nancy Ammerman, a sociologist of religion at Boston University...[wrote],
"...evangelicals who have pledged their loyalty to Trump and are deeply infused with a white Christian nationalist agenda will likely turn on McConnell."
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...Trump commands a level of loyalty the envy of authoritarians around the world.
