Sadly, many Americans still voted for him. Even the 2020 race was close, if you could believe it. I would argue many of his votes came from the churches, pastors, Christian leaders who voted him & had their entire congregations do it too. As someone who grew up in church, I can see how they were able to manipulate it: do you vote for the leader that your spiritual leader is endorsing, or do you vote for the anti-Christ? (I know sounds dramatic but I saw that going around)
I’m not saying this is a valid excuse and it does sound very very stupid. But truly think after 8 years of democratic leadership in the USA before that, the republican side was ready to “take back” the country. There was a lot of hype that had been built up. I’m just relieved we didn’t get another 4 years of that when 2020 finally came around