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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: C19fan

Unlike cajoling schoolkids into chanting Obama’s name...


41 posted on 01/13/2020 8:59:12 AM PST by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: C19fan
This article is by Heffernan. She's written a long list of unhinged antiTrump rants.

She lives in Brooklyn Heights, NYC a tony, very rich, enclave were they voted for HillDaBeast at 92%.

From her wiki bio: Heffernan has sought help for alcoholism, attending Alcoholics Anonymous meetings in 2011.[35]

Of course.
42 posted on 01/13/2020 9:00:41 AM PST by IWontSubmit
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To: C19fan
The Obama Youth - Young children singing praise to Barack Obama

This SNL segment, singing praise in front of a portrait of The Great Leader, wasn't a parody:

SNL To Sir With Love

43 posted on 01/13/2020 9:02:25 AM PST by yesthatjallen
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To: C19fan

Typical RAT thinking. People who adore Trump are like cultists, but those who think he is worse than Hitler and Satan are sane.


44 posted on 01/13/2020 9:02:37 AM PST by Brooklyn Attitude (It's no coincidence that the Democrat/media complex always sides with America's enemies.)
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To: C19fan
And, in related news you may be interested in, Virginia....

Republican women prettier than demonicRAT women study finds

45 posted on 01/13/2020 9:02:57 AM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: Texas Eagle

While I do find leftists to be somewhat entertaining in a pathetic way, these leftist nitwits are getting tiresome.


46 posted on 01/13/2020 9:04:37 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp???)
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To: C19fan
Islam is a Cult....this POTUS is American Strong, the real deal...a Patriot. It is these silly un-Americans, owners of Fake News:


47 posted on 01/13/2020 9:07:20 AM PST by yoe ( Look at the "Squad" is that the future anyone wants for America?)
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To: C19fan

***I don’t use the term recklessly.***

The HELL you don’t!

At least Trump doesn’t force grade school kids to sing his praises.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJFC1qFCgyA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gtfizIbBDI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Fjj6a8aBNU


48 posted on 01/13/2020 9:07:40 AM PST by Alas Babylon! (The prisons do not fill themselves. Get moving, Barr!)
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To: cnsmom

This article says one thing:

WINNING!

I often say the Democrat party is like the Jim Jones Cult in Guyana. It fits more than you know. Fully 64% of the suicide victims were BLACK.


49 posted on 01/13/2020 9:07:55 AM PST by LeonardFMason (Lou Dobbs)
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To: C19fan

the creepy obama cult was promoted to my face and I still was an adult and kept my mouth shut and voted the disgusting pig out. Go ahead call names you Lilly livered creeps who can’t tell a man from a woman. These sick minded democrats get what they deserve.


50 posted on 01/13/2020 9:08:05 AM PST by Pilated (.)
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To: C19fan

Says Virginia Heggernan, who probably a lip-lock on Obama’s Love Porkchop for eight years.


51 posted on 01/13/2020 9:08:30 AM PST by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: C19fan

“Trump is like Silvio Berlusconi, like Adolf Hitler, like Boris Johnson.”


According to Godwin’s Law, she’s lost her argument in her second sentence. And then she refers to President Trump as a “...73-year-old mediocrity”. And yet this mediocrity managed to defeat the “most qualified person to ever run for President”, in spite of having the government actively working to make sure he lost. I understand that she doesn’t like the President or his followers, but I don’t think ‘mediocrity’ is a word that describes PDJT.


52 posted on 01/13/2020 9:08:43 AM PST by hanamizu
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To: C19fan

When you don’t like the personality of the leader of your opponents, you call those opponents “a cult”.

It truth there are far fewer Trump supporters who even sort of “worship” Trump, than there are the millions that just appreciate many of the policy decisions he has made, and yes they don’t mind showing that appreciation to Trump when given a chance.


53 posted on 01/13/2020 9:09:53 AM PST by Wuli
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To: C19fan

Always the pot deceptively calling the kettle black. The 180 spin is always a predictable tactic.


54 posted on 01/13/2020 9:11:43 AM PST by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: C19fan; Fred Nerks

As opposed to people who worshiped at the feet of Obama.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

We do not comprise a cult. We comprise a movement of non elitist patriotic Americans who support the plain textual meaning of the Constitution, much as described by Constitutional scholar Mark Levin. As a populist movement we deal with genuine fact, and we support Donald Trump in doing so, and applying the appropriate Constitutionally achieved remedies to factual situations.

Those who follow Obama’s ideology even now, follow an ideological illusion, a promise of a Liberal Fascist illusory Utopia.To bring that Utopia the Obama CULT had to destroy the valued institutions of America, including those that protect and defend America. NOW THAT’S A CULT.
A cult buoyed by delusion, hatred and division, where unfulfilled promises were made to distinct racial and ethnic groups, in detriment to those who Obama evilly defined as white and privileged.THAT’s A CULT.

In stark contrast President Trump is raising the economic achievement of ALL Americans, not the least of which are every minority and ethnic group to which Obama made his broken promises in order to evolve America towards a totalitarian socialist state.They are full of HATE. Even now.Beating them into the dust bin of history does not make President Trumps movement a cult. It makes the patriots of the Constitution and the American way, and national liberators.

If you want to trace the evolution of ideology which led to the Obama CULT, you can read a very good exposition on the topic here:

“Barack Obama: The Quintessential Liberal Fascist” ( CULT)

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obam_the_quintessentia_1.html)


55 posted on 01/13/2020 9:12:04 AM PST by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism)http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obam_the_quintessentia_1.html))
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To: C19fan

LOL>
By the people who brought you this....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJFC1qFCgyA

And

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pb51PtIT5tM


56 posted on 01/13/2020 9:12:40 AM PST by Kozak (DIVERSITY+PROXIMITY=CONFLICT)
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To: C19fan

They should try looking for the truth and they wouldn’t have to search for the proper term. He does what the voters expect from a president. They agree with his views. Isn’t that enough?


57 posted on 01/13/2020 9:17:23 AM PST by Telepathic Intruder
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To: rightwingcrazy

Call Virginia what she is, a self-serving Trollop who knows nothing. A parasite on the liberal hog.


58 posted on 01/13/2020 9:17:47 AM PST by richardtavor
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To: C19fan
Cults are NOT focused on God, His Truth.

They are focused on the selfish interests of this world, as you will find more closely associated Democrats in their thirst for power and control over your life, and restricting your God given freedoms.

59 posted on 01/13/2020 9:19:09 AM PST by G Larry (There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
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To: kiryandil

‘The Virgin Heffalump’

ha ha ha; somewhere Winnie the Pooh is smiling...


60 posted on 01/13/2020 9:20:11 AM PST by IrishBrigade
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