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After all, Trump is treated not just as a fellow Christian, but something closer to a savior figure by the religious right.

“He was somewhat of a savior, to be honest with you,” Roberts said of Flaherty, who will get his ring on Saturday.

Not least because it’s hard to see, after Kamala Harris’ defeat, his party turning to another San Francisco Democrat as their savior.

“They had delivered the show to Allan as a savior because the ratings had been going down, and there was some fresh blood at the Academy,” Vilanch said.

Ten or 15 years ago, Friedrich Merz would have seemed a wildly unlikely candidate for the role of savior to Europe’s liberal democracy.