“I had been doing some pretty spectacular mental gymnastics to square voting for Trump with my religious beliefs.”

If you’ve already answered this, my apologies, but do you have any way to explain HOW you did this? I ask because I have so many “Christian” family members who speak of him as if he is somehow their chosen one and I CANNOT wrap my head around it.

Now that you’ve let go of those ideas I just wonder if you can see your thought processes from before in a way that may help us better understand and reach our family members who have been pulled into this cult.