Thank you for the opportunity to explain it, and work out some of it.

So religions usually have a savior that is like Jesus. That’s why I call it the "Shepherd Model. This one is specifically the one the GOP uses to appeal to their base.

In general, most Christians have a Jesus that has a personality of all of the traits in the left half. Trump projects that personality to his followers.

For the Christian churches, Jesus is a savior for most Christians, but what is he saving you from? In theory, yourself. But also religions make a lot of stuff up that you can’t help having, like being born with sin, sex before marriage, etc. The theory part makes you fearful, uneasy, guilty, etc.

The GOP have projected Trump as a Jesus figure and creates all of these things to actually be fearful of. They also use every way they can think of to convince their followers that Trump is the one to save you. Examples:

• Create an economy that mostly the rich benefit from, but blame the democrats or his staff for it. Even if he was the one that told his staff to do it.
• Go after immigrants, black people and Native Americans because they’re not in the “in group.”
• You could easily become in the out group yourself, and they’ll go all Old Testament on you behind the scenes. There are some they’ll do it out in the open, but just enough to make you uneasy.
• Trump and his staff behind the scenes are flooding with words, actions and orders, fear and hate. That fear and hate makes you uneasy and want to please the Jesus side.

Trump usually acts like Jesus to his followers, he’s brilliant at it. If you piss him off, he becomes the Old Testament version of god and goes crazy on them. The right side version of god. That rarely happens out in the open though. He’ll flip tables, like Jesus, out in the open. But he won’t go all fuck your shit up.

Sidenote: I should have said “villainizes others” instead of “doesn’t care about outsiders.” The MAGA Christians villainize who they think are not part of their religion, unless they can use them in some way.