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It's not even uniquely American, it's the same right wing, nationalistic, authoritarian, traditional rhetoric used as everywhere else, it's just more religious believing countries like the US tend to be more susceptible to this type of ideology rhetoric because it usually uses the same language and feelings as religious belief.
Compare a maga politician's speech with a conservative preacher's sermon, the phrases and words and lack of justification through evidence. Faith, specifically Christian defined faith as belief without evidence, is negligent thinking those beliefs are justified knowledge and while many people can participate in religions without becoming extremists, it also leads to extremist cults stuff like David koresh, maga, Jim Jones, etc. it is also being worsened by the more liberal, less fundamentalist believers leaving churches or splitting to a different church like the recent Methodists schism.
Don't believe fairy tales or sermons or stories about money.