Spot on take.The really awful reality though is, as bad a candidate as he is, and even though he demonstrates daily that he's the farthest thing from a Christian his base would ever tolerate if he were anyone else, and he's an objectively terrible person, he's still going to get upwards of 70 million votes. And he should barely get 70 votes.
It's an electorate problem, not (just) a candidate problem.
My #1 maxim of American politics: NEVER overestimate the intelligence of the American voter.