“Rav Kook seems to say that he is a movement. Perhaps he is the State of Israel. This might not be an abstract concept but an entity.”
I don’t really want to get into anything, but why are people so especially harsh on Chabad Meshichism when mainstream religious-Zionist thought is equally messianist? If anything, shouldn’t picking the wrong guy as Moshiach be less of a problem than rewriting the entire concept itself to fit your beliefs?