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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.

(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...


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.


61 posted on 01/13/2020 9:20:31 AM PST by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: C19fan

I guess we’re fools for not hopping on the “smartest, most qualified woman in the world” train.


62 posted on 01/13/2020 9:22:52 AM PST by XRdsRev (ORANGE MAN GOOD.)
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To: C19fan

They have TV soap opera script writers making this stuff up.


63 posted on 01/13/2020 9:27:02 AM PST by gunsequalfreedom
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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.


64 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)
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To: C19fan

People who think Trump supporters are in a cult are in a cult.


65 posted on 01/13/2020 9:30:04 AM PST by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: C19fan

Intellectually immature. I guess “Trump is Hitler” has lost some of its punch.


66 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.)
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To: C19fan

So we have come to the point where believing in and supporting the Constitution of the USA is a CULT?


67 posted on 01/13/2020 9:33:58 AM PST by VinnieCCT
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To: C19fan
Why...whatever do you mean....


68 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.)
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To: j.havenfarm

You mean Their infinite capacity for projection


69 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)
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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...


70 posted on 01/13/2020 9:37:21 AM PST by IrishBrigade
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To: yoe

True dat.


71 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.)
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To: rightwingcrazy
"This article is childish."

Well, it is written by a child


72 posted on 01/13/2020 9:39:53 AM PST by aquila48 (Do not let them make you care!)
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To: C19fan

Cult meeting tonight! Paint your faces orange and we’ll sacrifice liberals in the big leach pit.


73 posted on 01/13/2020 9:43:34 AM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: C19fan

“Mediocrity in the Oval Office?” Won’t read past that. My times more valuable.


74 posted on 01/13/2020 9:43:49 AM PST by goodnesswins (Want to know your family genealogy? Run for political office...")
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To: aquila48

Didn’t she win the Miss White Savior pageant in Altantic City in 2015?


75 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)
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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.


76 posted on 01/13/2020 9:44:47 AM PST by oldasrocks (Heavily Medicated for your Protection.)
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To: C19fan

Cultural critic, former NYT staff writer,, etc.

Nuff said..


77 posted on 01/13/2020 9:44:55 AM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Monthly Donors Rock!!!)
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To: desertfreedom765

Exactly


78 posted on 01/13/2020 9:45:25 AM PST by LucienCA13 (sorry if you are microaggrieved)
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To: VinnieCCT

So we have come to the point where believing in and supporting the Constitution of the USA is a CULT?

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Since at least Usurpation Day, January 20, 2009.


79 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)
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To: C19fan
Not an analysis, just another vicious smear job.

80 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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