"Wallnau's ideas have taken off in particular among a group of Christians often referred to as neo-charismatics, evangelicals who speak in tongues and believe that the Holy Spirit has possessed them with supernatural gifts, including prophecy and healing; this religious cohort is also one of the fastest-growing segments of Christianity in the U.S. Now, four years after an election that many of these Christians continue to think was stolen, Wallnau and his faithful are on the campaign trail. 'People don't know. They're going to look back on it in the future,' Wallnau promised the crowd in Michigan, 'and they're going to say the populist civic awakening began when believers prayed in Trump to disrupt the status quo.'"
Molly Olmstead at Slate writes about those who believe that "under Trump's protection, American Christians will rise up, defeat their demonic enemies, and take their rightful place of power in the country."
And Matthew D. Taylor at The Bulwark describes these beliefs as "victorious eschatology."
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