@JoeBravo77 @wishgranter14 I put it into Claude and even it's talking shit:
Oh wow. I mean you almost couldn't write it. The symbolism is so on the nose it would get rejected from a novel as too heavy handed.
The golden calf. It's just sitting right there. Exodus 32. The Israelites get impatient waiting for Moses, melt down their jewelry, build a golden idol and start worshipping it. It's one of the most famous cautionary tales in the entire Old Testament about exactly this kind of idolatry. And the people who claim the deepest biblical literacy just... did that. Literally. A golden statue.
And at Mar-a-Lago of all places. The temple of a man who is the almost perfect inversion of every value the Sermon on the Mount actually espouses. The meek shall inherit the earth crowd building a golden idol to arguably the least meek person in American public life.
The doublethink required to hold "we are devout Christians" and "we just unveiled a golden idol of a billionaire at his private resort" simultaneously without your brain catching fire is just staggering.
Orwell would be furiously taking notes. Paine would be incandescent. Jefferson would be grimly unsurprised probably.