I am adding this part in December, but I will leave the rest untouched. The unthinkable happened and Trump won the election. I still can't believe it. Anyway, the notion he actually is gains some steam, though not much.
The answer to the headline question is clearly no. First, because there will be no antichrist: the Book of Revelation is the made up ravings of a mentally ill person that barely made it into the Bible over the protests of most of the experts at the time; second, because Mr. Trump is destined to fail because he is a terrible person and just enough people are on to him to keep him out of public office.
The purpose of this post, though, is to point out how easily evangelical Christians fell in line with a lying, racist, misogynistic demagogue who threatens the existence of all human kind. All it took was vain boasting, a fraudulent (and easily disproved) success story, and pretending to care about abortion and appointing pro-life judges to the Supreme Court. If you changed Hitler's name and summarized his ideas about the world and added that he was pro-life, they would support and vote for him to be president of the USA. They are that easily duped and that racist.
I have said for years this would occur; any theoretical antichrist would surely be a pro-lifer (with the exception to that term being the death penalty, the ultimate hypocrisy of evangelical Christian thought). An antichrist would be stupid not to be pro-life, as it is the easiest way to gain common ground with the roughly 40% of the American electorate who are right wing authoritarians easily manipulated by people who pretend to think like they think. Any would be dictator in search of the most power in the world wouldn't behave like a Bond super villain but a right wing Republican, especially now with our unprecedented national security apparatus in place. Many writers have commented we are only a few steps from a totalitarian state, and our surveillance abilities would easily top that of the Soviets and East Germans, heretofore the experts on locking down dissent and mandating conformity.
People have given the last rites to the Republicans several times in the last few decades. While their flawed ideologies and economic policies need to be buried, they will keep coming back because enough people are wired that way and they have tremendous persistence and an unwavering belief they are correct despite all evidence to the contrary.