Saving representative American democracy is the responsibility of American voters. Machado’s proper responsibility is her movement and country, and flattering Donald Trump serves that.
It’s kind of cute in a way. He’s so simple-minded, and such a sociopath, that the idea of an afterlife and being punished for doing bad things just occured to him recently, was believed uncritically, and before that he had no reason to be good*.
So he has decided that a nobel prize (and buying a turkey for tiny tim?) might blag him a place.
Probably it was some of the recent talk about a rapture. Nothing would irk him more than visually and indisputably being a member of the lesser group that are left behind.
\* He’s actually explicitly said that without heaven there is no reason to be good. Which should be a damning (so to speak) thing to say. But of course among many Christians it’s a common talking point. What other reason could there be to not eat babies than fear of God?