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At these gatherings, Christians who believe they can use faith to summon miracles and access supernatural gifts such as healing spoke in tongues while calling for God’s angelic forces to combat the evil propping up Trump’s enemies.

"But I will not summon him in the mirror!"

These kinds of comparisons are out of vogue; it has been hard to summon back the outrage we felt about Trump in 2016 this third time around.

That strategy, which later propelled the deadly Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, has been amplified of late by his calls that if reelected he would summon the military and Justice Department to put down the “enemy from within.”

As anyone who watched the Jan. 6 committee hearings or has read some of the indictment materials from special prosecutor Jack Smith can attest, Trump spent the last months of 2020 working the phones, conspiring with lackeys and pushing propaganda with a level of energy and sharpness he can no longer summon up for a 15-minute interview.