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Column: Call Trumpism what it is: a cult
LA Times ^ | anuary 10, 20209 | Virginia Heggernan

Posted on 01/13/2020 8:41:46 AM PST by C19fan

The comparisons have come hard and fast, at least since 2015. Trump is like Silvio Berlusconi, like Adolf Hitler, like Boris Johnson. A 2018 film called “The Trump Prophecy” took the evangelical route, comparing Trump to Cyrus the Great, the 6th century BC Persian monarch chosen by God to free Jewish captives in Babylon.

But maybe it’s time to stop searching for the exact analogy for Trump, be he Cyrus or Boris, Adolf or a Silvio. What demands analysis is less the arrogant 73-year-old mediocrity in the Oval Office, but the worshipful attitude so many Americans have toward him.

A lot of nut jobs have peddled lies to Americans before, and even styled themselves as messianic. But at no time in history have so many Americans been drawn to what’s looking increasingly like a cult. I don’t use the term recklessly.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Politics/Elections; US: California
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To: simpson96

a guy recently caught one of those fishing in florida...


101 posted on 01/13/2020 10:53:45 AM PST by heavy metal (your reward will be in heaven not on your paycheck...)
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To: Alas Babylon!

Thanks, I’ve been looking for those.

I notice YouTube won’t allow the first one to be saved as a favorite.


102 posted on 01/13/2020 10:55:45 AM PST by Balding_Eagle ( The Great Wall of Trump ---- 100% sealing of the border. Coming soon.)
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To: C19fan

I have yet to see anyone fainting at a Trump rally. With O rallies, it was common. As usual, the left projects.


103 posted on 01/13/2020 10:58:56 AM PST by JLLH
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To: Reddy
Hillary Clinton (Kate McKinnon) performs Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah." (Nov 12, 2016)
104 posted on 01/13/2020 10:58:59 AM PST by yesthatjallen
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To: Mr. Jeeves

Hey! that’s right!

We have a lot of FR’s with musical talent. I don’t. I was asked not to sing in church. But someone should write a song about our worshiping him (or should that be Him). We could submit it to schools for children to sing. I like this idea.


105 posted on 01/13/2020 11:19:39 AM PST by dirtymac (Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.(DT4POTUS))
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To: C19fan

Call leftism what it is. A severe debilitating mental disease. Very few are able to beat this heinous disease. Most end up dying as they lived; bat shit crazy.


106 posted on 01/13/2020 11:21:49 AM PST by Boomer ('Democrat' is now synonymous with 'corrupt')
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To: C19fan

Beyond ‘appeals to authority’ and name-calling there’s nothing here...

What a lame piece of writing.


107 posted on 01/13/2020 11:23:41 AM PST by GOPJ (Glacier National Park removed signs warning glaciers will be gone by 2020 (ten year old sign))
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To: C19fan

Damn! I’m a member of a Cult that only requires me to vote and if I want to, send a donation:-)


108 posted on 01/13/2020 12:05:45 PM PST by Harpotoo (Being a socialist is a lot easier than having to WORK like the rest of US:-))
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To: C19fan; All

What about the guy who was surrounded fawning ass-kissers standing by by Greek columns?


109 posted on 01/13/2020 12:09:01 PM PST by Cobra64 (Common sense isnÂ’t common anymore.)
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To: C19fan
Yes, I created the First Cult of President Yrump Church. The cult's books are the Bible and the US Constitution...😋
110 posted on 01/13/2020 12:45:18 PM PST by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is, too. :-))
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To: romanesq

Trump goat


111 posted on 01/13/2020 2:38:34 PM PST by genghis
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To: C19fan
Trump is the first president in a while to behave as if he actually likes us.

So we like him back.

It is no more complex then that.

112 posted on 01/13/2020 2:44:59 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (A hero is a hero no matter what medal they give him. Likewise a schmuck is still a schmuck.)
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To: C19fan

I had to choose between Trump and Hillary. I didn’t need the Russians to make my decision. Trump is a PR disaster but I will vote for him again. There’s your cult!


113 posted on 01/13/2020 3:25:01 PM PST by TexasRepublic (Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves. Socialism is governmental theft!)
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To: C19fan

The anti Trumpers are a cult. They justed forced Pelosi to file false impeachment charges.


114 posted on 01/13/2020 3:29:57 PM PST by justa-hairyape (The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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To: rightwingcrazy

And Hillary


115 posted on 01/13/2020 3:31:26 PM PST by Fledermaus (Q babbleAnon folks are weird.)
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To: yesthatjallen

I preferred to think of this that week:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LEoNQPQXsY


116 posted on 01/13/2020 4:43:20 PM PST by M1903A1 ("We shed all that is good and virtuous for that which is shoddy and sleazy...and call it progress")
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To: C19fan

CNN had a Special over the Weekend, The Lies of Donald Trump.

Imagine Fox doing a Show back in 2012, The Lies of Barack Obama.


117 posted on 01/13/2020 4:47:35 PM PST by Kickass Conservative (Kill a Commie for your Mommy.)
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To: Candor7
The name of the author is NOT Virginia Heggerman, it is VIRGINIA HEFFERNAN

IMAGE SOURCE FREE REPUBLIC

I always like to see whose BS I am reading.

118 posted on 01/13/2020 5:08:36 PM PST by Fred Nerks (fair dinkum!)
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To: C19fan

I have yet to hear of teachers teaching their 3rd graders to sing “TRUMP, mmmm, mmmm, mmmm”.

I have yet to hear about any news person getting a TINGLE up or down his or her leg.

I have yet to hear of any low cost (for low intelligence people) or free bribe (at taxpayers expence) TRUMPOPHONES.


119 posted on 01/13/2020 5:11:17 PM PST by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: C19fan

The entire democrat party is a cult of perfidy and stupidity.


120 posted on 01/13/2020 8:02:16 PM PST by jospehm20
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