As I noted in a previous post, Trump managed to obtain the support of the religious right in spite of his conspicuous personal shortcomings because he persuaded them that only he had the strength and ruthlessness to save them from cultural annihilation. Since then, times have moved on. Roe is gone, and reactionaries all over the country are flooding the zone with culture war legislation–all of this without Trump.
Do the religious reactionaries think they still need him at this point, or do they view him as more of a distraction than anything else? We will find out if DeSantis, or one of the other prominent religious reactionaries, has the guts to run against him.