The End Will Come for the Cult of MAGA

Rudy Canoza

2024-12-24 20:27:20 UTC

The next generation isn’t buying it.

By Peter Sagal

In October of last year, Donald Trump filed a defamation suit accusing CNN of
calling him a lot of bad names, the first on the lengthy list being “like a cult
leader.” One could assume that Trump would be flattered by that, because cult
leaders are usually depicted in pop culture as charismatic masters with
near-divine power over the lives of their followers. Jimmy Breslin once called
then-Mayor Rudolph Giuliani a “small man in search of a balcony.” If so, then
Trump is a large man in search of a compound.

He stands in front of massive crowds festooned with insignia proclaiming their
allegiance, chanting his name and accompanying him on the familiar refrains:
“Lock her/him up!” “Build the wall!” They will countenance no criticism of their
idol and accept his version of events without question. The same, of course, can
be said about Taylor Swift, although no mob of Swifties has sacked the Capitol.
Because she hasn’t asked them to. Yet.

Those who call Trumpism a cult can point to his popularity with Republican
voters increasing with each of his four criminal indictments. A CBS poll in late
August revealed that the most trusted source of information among those
voters—more than conservative media, family members, or clergy—is that famed
straight shooter Donald J. Trump.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/08/trumpism-maga-cult-republican-voters-indoctrination/675173/

Trumpswabs are stupid gullible shitbags.

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