I could quibble, but @sullydish's point here is correct and important. Trumpism didn't supplant the evangelical right, as some have misunderstood it. It fused with it. A big part of the cultishness is sincere belief in an unquestionable divine mandate. https://andrewsullivan.substack.com/p/christianism-and-our-democracy

It's deeply heretical and idolatrous under classical Christianity. But Trumpism is, for all intents and purposes, a religion. Its precepts are not political opinions, they're articles of faith. And that's why any attempt to separate it from Trump's personality cult is so futile.

If you have particular political and policy goals, an argument can be had about if Trump serves those goals.

If you believe Trump is the anointed vessel of God Almighty, there's no diverting that energy towards other political alternatives or separating it from Trump himself.

It might or might not get to the point where this isn't a controlling majority of the GOP, as it currently is.

But he'll carry that religious-fervor loyalty to his grave. It won't fade away because he's lost power and elections or failed to deliver and makes a fool of himself.

And it can't be harnessed and transferred by anybody else. Not a Hawley or Cotton, not wannabe paleolibertarian imitators, not Tucker Carlson or the My Pillow guy or whoever. It is inextricably and permanently fused to Trump himself.

Pro-Trump or anti-Trump is its only defining belief; the line it draws to carve the world up into unquestionable good guys and irredeemable bad guys. Everything else is subsidiary to and dependent on that one litmus test. Trumpism without Trump is a delusional fantasy.