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.

[mulligan]

This guy is a nut case. He lives in some other world.

[Candor7]

I hereby dub her Hefty Heffernan. ( grin)

“Heffer” has its conotations.

Interesting morphology:

Heff - er -nan

........ the phonemes combine to sound German, but not so.

Contrary to an assumed Teutonoic conclusion that it is a German name, its actually from the Gaelic O’hIfearnain.

She likely has type “O” blood.

All this adds up to the fact that she actually has a perfectly good lineage which somehow has been wasted.

One of her books : “The Internet as Art argued that the Internet is a “massive and collective work of art”, one that is a “work in progress”,[1] and that the suggested deterioration of attention spans in response to it is a myth. “

Increasingly we live in a strictly “imaginary” world rather than earth born reality, because of the “internet.”

That may be the greatest enemy of human freedom and the pursuit of happiness. Hefty Heffernan is on the wrong side of History.A new age spinner in the line of Joseph Goebbels.

But you will find as others do, that your research GROUNDs reality. That sometimes is why people take offense. They are secure in their alternate reality until you point out the truth. And it pisses them off , sometimes no end.It certainly would piss of a Heffernan. Never apologize for it, because people like you are the thin line between sociopathy/psychosis and factual truth upon which freedom thrives.

And that is really the wider role of Free Republic now in the blogosphere as well, despite the continuous publication of alternate reality crap articles which must be continuously debunked, like the last one on the Great Australiam Brush Fires of 1974/1975....which NEVER HAPPENED.....LOL..

Let the Heffernans of the world support their own alternate realities. Neither you or I will likely be celebrating much of it, unless it leads them into self destruction, which is the eventual destination of their exit from the reality of fact into imaginary world as “ Art”

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Heffernan

[Fred Nerks]

Wiki says she has two children, no husband and no parents...pardon me, but might she be hiding something?

[Candor7]

Well I suppose it could have been either an immaculate conception or alternatively, wind pollination. Twice no less!

[Fred Nerks]

She reminds me of zero...you don’t know who her parents were, you don’t know if the children are hers...but she’s got a big mouth all the same. She went to Hahhhvard...

[timestax]