Theocracy is always about lip service. The ones who are actually about service to God aren’t concerned with power. Religion, as an institution, just provides a convenient “moral” claim to power to be exploited by power-hungry individuals.
Theocrats invoke the divine to rule. That’s not Trump’s and his rich backer’s modus operandi. Trump only mentions God in passing when it comes to conning religious-minded people.
Trump is not the end all be all of political aspiration. His flavor was not the dominant streak at the time of this interview. Before, and beside, his relatively recent claim to political power were, and are, claims predicated on theocratic moral justification.
Theocracy is always about lip service. The ones who are actually about service to God aren’t concerned with power. Religion, as an institution, just provides a convenient “moral” claim to power to be exploited by power-hungry individuals.
Theocrats invoke the divine to rule. That’s not Trump’s and his rich backer’s modus operandi. Trump only mentions God in passing when it comes to conning religious-minded people.
Trump is not the end all be all of political aspiration. His flavor was not the dominant streak at the time of this interview. Before, and beside, his relatively recent claim to political power were, and are, claims predicated on theocratic moral justification.