[inpajamas]

What we are seeing with Trump is a nationalistic populist movement sucking in a lot of good patriotic people. People better figure Trump out pretty quick or we will be in more trouble than we are already in. Trump is no true conservative, but for a few slip-ups that betray him, he could get an Oscar for his performance. This is no more than 1930s and 2008 populism déjà vu in a completely different cloak. Trump is using the modus operandi described in Eric Hoffer's 1951 book, "The True Believer" - Thoughts On The Nature Of Mass Movements. Trump has found a void and has created a cult following. He is taking legitimate issues and concerns and using them to generate a fanatical mass movement of "True Believers" -- intoxicated Trumpaholics, and Tump is their cult leader. There is no way to talk to many of them; their minds have been snatched. Many will not realize the fantasy until it all falls down. History repeats. It is déjà vu all over again.

[GodGunsGuts]

Cult following...there is no other way to describe it. People are panicked, and they falling for the perceived strongman, whose whole life has been spent promoting the very evils they are panicked about, but has recently learned how mimic their distress calls, and now they are flocking towards him like ducks towards a duck call. Little do they know that he will soon pop out of the bushes, and them his dinner.

[PIF]

Better book for understanding Trumpeters is Wilhelm Reich’s “The Psychology of Mass Fascism.”

[Hawthorn]

>> Trump is using the modus operandi described in Eric Hoffer’s 1951 book, “The True Believer” <<

And there are a lot of parallels to the classic characteristics of fascism, as described by writers like John T. Flynn and Umberto Eco.