The hard part for me, Peter, is I find that kind of stuff very depressing. I too never was a "joiner" nor into any sort of groupthink. I was raised to question that and be suspicious of it. It makes me fairly nervous when I see people being walled off into just one information set. Where going outside of it makes them question you. 

I can't abide that and I honestly don't understand the desire to do it. I mean, the obvious heart of darkness in that video you posted is Bakker's desire to scare the living shit out of people. He fills them with fear. Trump works the same way, trying to terrify his followers into following him. It's a tried-and-true method to convert and brainwash people and it makes them dangerous because once you have filled them with fear, they are then irrational and willing to do things that a clear-thinking person would not do. 

I think Christians worship Trump because he uses the same methods as their religious leaders use. So, they are easy converts to his messaging. Whereas those of us that are not religious see right through it. It creates that simple dynamic of each side asking how does the other side not see it?