Column: Call Trumpism what it is: a cult

LA Times ^ | anuary 10, 20209 | Virginia Heggernan

[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.

[heavy metal]

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

[Balding_Eagle]

Thanks, I’ve been looking for those.

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

[JLLH]

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

[yesthatjallen]

Hillary Clinton (Kate McKinnon) performs Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah." (Nov 12, 2016)

[dirtymac]

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.

[Boomer]

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.

[GOPJ]

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

What a lame piece of writing.

[Harpotoo]

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

[Cobra64]

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

[Deplorable American1776]

Yes, I created the First Cult of President Yrump Church. The cult's books are the Bible and the US Constitution...😋

[genghis]

Trump goat

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

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.

[TexasRepublic]

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!

[justa-hairyape]

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

[Fledermaus]

And Hillary

[M1903A1]

I preferred to think of this that week:

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

[Kickass Conservative]

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.

[Fred Nerks]

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.

[5th MEB]

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.

[jospehm20]

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