re: #4 Nerdy Fish

No, they genuinely believe he is a good Christian man, for three reasons:

1) He gave them the SCOTUS that reversed Roe;
2) He beat down BLM protesters to take a photo op in front of a church with an upside-down Bible;
3) He’s a Republican, and in their minds, only Republicans can be Christian (and must necessarily be).

My thesis is that the GOP version of Christianity is precisely the defining proposition of conservatism regarding out-groups and an in-group, with “Christian (GOP)” serving as the label for the in-group.