Disgraced general to far-right hero: Michael Flynn rides the next wave

Donald Trump’s former national security adviser is rallying the faithful and looking to future elections. He’s become an icon for a GOP base that’s increasingly suspicious of a corrupt “deep state” and elites.

The sun has already set outside the white-walled church as Michael Flynn walks onstage. The crowd inside the 1,100-capacity auditorium has thinned some after 10 hours of speeches and prayers and performances, but the closing speaker seems raring to go. 

Lieutenant General Flynn, a former Army intelligence officer who served, briefly, as President Donald Trump’s first national...