Faith is just another word for loyalty, and one with similarly positive connotations – except for one small detail: Blind faith is never a good idea. Putting your faith in the wrong person can be disastrous. And Trump was definitely the wrong person.
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There’s a fundamental difference in how Trump’s base looks at things and how thinking individuals view the world. And the nature of evangelical religion — how it operates — holds the key to identifying it. There’s long been a tension between faith and science: not just faith in the sense of religious piety, but in the sense of belief without evidence.
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Donald Trump’s lie about the 2020 election being “stolen” is about as big as they come, but it’s still not the biggest or even the most dangerous one he’s told. If his followers hadn’t fallen for this other lie, the election so-called “big lie” wouldn’t even have been possible.
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Donald Trump is an everyday citizen now. He can’t assert executive privilege because he doesn’t have standing. Because of this, any judge who sees Trump’s lawsuit come before him has only one real choice, under the law. He or she must bang that gavel, stare Trump’s attorney in the eye, and say, “Case dismissed!”
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