Those millions of republicans want an authoritarian/theocratic gov't but they mistakenly think they will be the few thousand elites actually in charge.

Those millions are useful tools for those who will actually be in charge.

One poster called it a 'new social feudalism age'

I'm watching, and enjoying, "A Gentleman in Moscow" streaming on Showtime. In the early days after the Russian Revolution, the Bolshevik tribunal determined where former members of the wealthy aristocracy would wind up. In time you see more and more politics and political shenanigans to gain favor with Stalin, who died of a cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 75, after sending more than 20 million to their deaths.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excess_mortality_in_the_Soviet_Union_under_Joseph_Stalin

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Stalin?wprov=sfla1

Johnson Evolved On Ukraine. Hearing About Evangelicals’ Persecution May Have Helped.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/johnson-changed-mind-on-ukraine-after-hearing-of-persecution_n_662ac701e4b09d8df9d5f3c8

The right has been trying to discredit the separation between church and state in recent years.

In the First Amendment:

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof"

Jefferson wrote,

"Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between Man & his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legitimate powers of government reach actions only, & not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should "make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof," thus building a wall of separation between Church & State. Adhering to this expression of the supreme will of the nation in behalf of the rights of conscience, I shall see with sincere satisfaction the progress of those sentiments which tend to restore to man all his natural rights, convinced he has no natural right in opposition to his social duties."