March of the suckers

At some point, the Trump cultists will realize they've been had.

The day after the Supreme Court of the United States collectively told Team Trump to make like a tree and get outta here, thousands of cultists converged on Washington, DC for a “stop the steal” rally. Sucker for punishment Rod Dreher watched the whole thing and may need counselling:

…It was a Trump rally by Christians (and sympathetic Jews) designed to mimic the Biblical story of the Israelite army ritually marching around the walled city of Jericho, blowing the shofar, and watching as God demolished the city’s defenses, so the Israelites could conquer. The idea of the Jericho March is that the true believers would circle the corrupt institutions of the US Government, the ones promulgating the hoax that Trump lost the election.

I watched because I wanted to see how far the Christian Right — for the record, I am an Orthodox Christian, and a conservative — would go to conflate Trump politics and religion. Pretty far, as it turns out. Right over the cliff.  You had to see it to believe i…