The Sixty Years' War.

The political beauty of the "Trump = Cyrus" equation is that Trump's character flaws are not a strike against him but a signal that he's the real thing: This new Cyrus is a non-Jew, a non-Christian, and a non - nice guy. Trump supporters regularly accuse critics of thinking politics is tea and crumpets: They look forward to a 2024 of Trump and trumpets. One 2016 objector wrote me this spring that in 2016 she had received the impression during prayer that Trump was a modern Cyrus, and so had her friends: The faith that "Trump = Cyrus" was and is all around her. What I can say, regarding white Evangelicals, is, yes, political passion is consuming American Evangelicalism, and yes, the Republican Party platform has become more important than the Gospel for many who identify as Evangelicals. [Extracted from the article]