I understood it to be a term of art, not a literal enunciation of a belief that a disembodied deity had possessed the bodies of humans in eastern Virginia at the polling booth. Such a notion would be inconsistent with Brat's free will theology and none of the RS that includes this quote have indicated he meant it as anything more than a literary flourish. If they were unambiguous he intended to communicate he was in contact with God or some other super-being then we'd have something. But they didn't. Right now we're making a scrapbook, rather than an encyclopedia article.