This is about the nation—once great, now so very not—that follows its 47th president as a god, lifting his ignorance and meanness and avarice up to replace the one true God the people once pledged to live under.

Back in the late 18th century, Thomas Jefferson predicted this would happen.

We have met Jefferson’s “single zealot” twice now,
and we have new numbers for the beast: 45 & 47.
We might not survive this second encounter.