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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
KEYWORDS: 2020; 2020election; berniesanders; california; dnctalkingpoint; dnctalkingpoints; election2020; heggerman; left; losangeles; losangelesslimes; losangelestimes; mediawingofthednc; mediocrity; partisanmediashills; presstitutes; smearmachine; tds; trump; trumpwillwinagain; vermont; virginiaheggernan
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To: C19fan
They don’t ask themselves why so many people who were not early supporters of Candidate Trump are now enthusiastic Trump voters. Decent Americans are facing pure evil. Trump, with all his flaws, is vastly superior to the petty totalitarian thugs of the globalist left.
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posted on
01/13/2020 9:20:31 AM PST
by
Pollster1
("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
To: C19fan
I guess we’re fools for not hopping on the “smartest, most qualified woman in the world” train.
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posted on
01/13/2020 9:22:52 AM PST
by
XRdsRev
(ORANGE MAN GOOD.)
To: C19fan
They have TV soap opera script writers making this stuff up.
To: C19fan
apparently in the cult of trump, if he were to disavow the constitution, his supporters wouldn’t leave him in the dust bin of history...
yea, right obama cultists.
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posted on
01/13/2020 9:27:39 AM PST
by
teeman8r
(Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world)
To: C19fan
People who think Trump supporters are in a cult are in a cult.
To: C19fan
Intellectually immature. I guess “Trump is Hitler” has lost some of its punch.
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posted on
01/13/2020 9:32:20 AM PST
by
gogeo
(The left prides themselves on being tolerant, but they can't even be civil.)
To: C19fan
So we have come to the point where believing in and supporting the Constitution of the USA is a CULT?
To: C19fan
Why...whatever do you mean....
…
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posted on
01/13/2020 9:35:09 AM PST
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
To: j.havenfarm
You mean Their infinite capacity for projection
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posted on
01/13/2020 9:36:57 AM PST
by
The Fop
(God Bless Donald Trump, Frank Sinatra, Joan Rivers, and the Fightin' Rat Pack Wing of the GOP)
To: yesthatjallen
‘This SNL segment, singing praise in front of a portrait of The Great Leader, wasn’t a parody:’
perhaps not; but that aside, it is a lovely tune sung by a lovely woman; lovely in a late ‘60’s sort of way, that is...
To: yoe
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posted on
01/13/2020 9:38:03 AM PST
by
sauropod
(Hold onto that impeachment for a while. It'll get better with age, just like Jennifer Rubin has.)
To: rightwingcrazy
"This article is childish."
Well, it is written by a child
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posted on
01/13/2020 9:39:53 AM PST
by
aquila48
(Do not let them make you care!)
To: C19fan
Cult meeting tonight! Paint your faces orange and we’ll sacrifice liberals in the big leach pit.
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posted on
01/13/2020 9:43:34 AM PST
by
dragnet2
(Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
To: C19fan
“Mediocrity in the Oval Office?” Won’t read past that. My times more valuable.
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posted on
01/13/2020 9:43:49 AM PST
by
goodnesswins
(Want to know your family genealogy? Run for political office...")
To: aquila48
Didn’t she win the Miss White Savior pageant in Altantic City in 2015?
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posted on
01/13/2020 9:43:55 AM PST
by
The Fop
(God Bless Donald Trump, Frank Sinatra, Joan Rivers, and the Fightin' Rat Pack Wing of the GOP)
To: gunnyg
Sounds like this will be printed on my new T shirt.
Also getting one printed that says TRUMP 2020, 2024, 2028. Just to see a few heads explode.
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posted on
01/13/2020 9:44:47 AM PST
by
oldasrocks
(Heavily Medicated for your Protection.)
To: C19fan
Cultural critic, former NYT staff writer,, etc.
Nuff said..
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posted on
01/13/2020 9:44:55 AM PST
by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi - Monthly Donors Rock!!!)
To: desertfreedom765
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posted on
01/13/2020 9:45:25 AM PST
by
LucienCA13
(sorry if you are microaggrieved)
To: VinnieCCT
So we have come to the point where believing in and supporting the Constitution of the USA is a CULT?
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Since at least Usurpation Day, January 20, 2009.
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posted on
01/13/2020 9:49:19 AM PST
by
Lurkinanloomin
(Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
To: C19fan
Not an analysis, just another vicious smear job.
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posted on
01/13/2020 9:51:19 AM PST
by
BitWielder1
(I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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