As I’ve argued more and more with these kinds of people and seen how they view the world, it’s not so much that the constitution and the founders were even good people or good government. They’re viewed in many respects in a similar way in which biblical history is seen, they apply the same lens. The founders are seen as similar to how Christians see the Patriarchs, and what they made as being the old covenant. It’s this older, primordial thing that was put in place that is good, but also flawed by human nature and their own sinful desires bleeding in, with things like slavery or racial laws or not having women’s rights, and other things of this but was a shadow of things to come and the fullness of what was to be. Lincoln is sort of like King David, and his Republican Party the kingdom of Israel more or less, but even after that it’s still not the total fulfillment. No, that you don’t get until World War II, where Hitler, who is Satan, is defeated and the Holocaust is something of a Christ to them. Then you get bill Buckley and Reagan, and both of these are sort of like Paul who codifies much more of it and continues the teachings, spreading the gospel of colorblind free market meritocracy and liberal democracy. They see America in the exact same way they see the kingdom of Christ. Open to absolutely everyone so long as you subscribe to the same faith. That’s more or less how they see the world, and where you and I fit in, who are patriots but who do not like many of these things, we are like Judaizers or Jews to them, saying that either it’s only open to a particular people still or that they must at least carry on the old things, and their reaction is similar to if you went into your local church, and told them that animal sacrifice is a good thing and we need to bring it back. With those they interact with who are against America or American traditions and principles entirely, these are like heathens to them. It’s why they call them the pagan right. They cannot hold two things in their mind at one time, and understand that your religion and your nation are under separate principles and operate differently than one another, and they treat their view of nations as dogmatic as they would religion and hold faith in the political system the same way they would God. It explains absolutely everything when you understand this.