Regarding my mention of rav shach, the chazon ish, etc…my point wasn’t to move the goalpost. I was trying to say that the Torah world’s policies on dead messiahs and the Lubavitcher rebbe’s status in our eyes was already determined 70 years ago. When someone, even a big person, tells me something i know that the briser rov and chazon ish were opposed to, i listen to the latter, because they were far bigger than anyone alive today. Perhaps eav dovid cohen has more important things to do with his time rhan ponder messianics and their beliefs, but if he were shown the kinds of rebbe worship and cult like messianic fervor, he would have something else to say entirely.
Rav pam and rav avigdor miller stepped back their support for the Lubavitcher rebbe in the late 90s, when more information became available. Not all rabbonim know the metzius about everything; if rav dovid cohen told me something that i know b’metzius to be based on mistaken facts, i would not be allowed to follow that psak.