In 2016, Ted Cruz won Iowa. Think about everything that Donald Trump has done since then. The lies, the bigotry, the Access Hollywood tape, the good "people on both sides", Fuentes dinner, the grift and the grab, the Trump Russia Senate Republican report, the firing of James Comey to make the Trump / Russia investigation go away, Mike Flynn, the 25% increase in the national debt, the constant promises in 2 weeks that were never fulfilled, the promise of better health insurance legislation "who knew health care was so complicated?" , every week is infrastructure week and no infrastructure bill ever passed, the Emoluments violations, the diplomats pressured into staying at Trump hotels, the tax cuts for the wealthy bill so terrible that not even Joe Manchin would vote for it, the TEN INSTANCES OF OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE IDENTIFIED AND PROVEN BY ROBERT MUELLER, the Ukrainian phone call, the first impeachment, the decision to not do anything about the novel coronavirus because it was hitting blue states at first, the refusal to help fight fires in California, the demand to have his ass kissed for states to get help fighting the novel coronavirus, the extreme pressure hedonism leading to no testing, the refusal to wear a mask when the CDC recommended it, the declaration that the pandemic was a Democratic Party hoax, the violation of the Hatch Act when every incumbent president's campaign knew how impressive it would look but nobody else would do it because the American taxpayers should not involuntarily pay for his campaign, the lies to his voters that he won the presidential election but that it was stolen, no peaceful transfer of power which is America's miracle, the pressure with lies applied to the Freemans, the state legislators, governors, secretaries of state, the fake electors scheme, the "losers and suckers" comment, the threat to Mike Pence because he knew that in America one person alone doesn't pick who gets to be dictator for life (Al Gore was Clinton's VP IN 2000 AND RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT - COULD HE HAVE SIMPLY DECLARED THAT HE WON, CAN VP HARRIS DO THIS IN 2024??? ) , the incitement of the insurrection which even republican Mitch McConnell said Trump was "morally and practically responsible" for, the theft of classified national defense documents, the GA RICO violation, DOBBS AND FORCED BIRTHERISM and campaign finance law violations... Fewer people employed at the end of his term than at the beginning, 6.7% unemployment
These are all just off the top of my head.
And yet A GREATER PERCENTAGE OF EVANGELICALS support him now than did in 2016. These people who claim to be the "moral majority", the people who "back the Blue " but now want to defund law enforcement, the people who claim to believe in law and order, the people who say that they care about life.
And what we have learned is that it's all bullshit!!! That really being a fundamentalist is about power for white men. That's it. That's what these people believe in. Whatever witness or credibility these people had has been thrown into the incinerator and burned.