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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

Call liberalism what it is, un-American insanity.


81 posted on 01/13/2020 9:51:53 AM PST by SaxxonWoods (Epstein pulled a Carradine, the bozo.)
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To: reed13k

“My first thought was “mmm mmm mmm barack Hussein Obama” where they had a bunch of little kids singing the praises of the failure in chief.”

Exactly. Talk about a cult. This columnist should get back to us when idiot teachers start forcing little kids to sing worship songs about Trump.


82 posted on 01/13/2020 9:52:14 AM PST by Reddy ( B.O. stinks)
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To: gogeo

Trump has been compared to everyone who was evil or famous. I believe he is most like “Our Churchill”. Bad mouthed, weird, batty old man who is the most brilliant president we’ve ever had and can be credited for saving our country.


83 posted on 01/13/2020 9:54:08 AM PST by WVNan
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To: C19fan

Gee, another New Englander masquerading as a “journalist”

And with personal problems, no surprise there

“Heffernan has sought help for alcoholism, attending Alcoholics Anonymous meetings in 2011.[35]”


84 posted on 01/13/2020 9:54:22 AM PST by A_Former_Democrat (Guns up . . . We cominÂ’ PS: Eric The Blower Ciaramella. PASS IT ON)
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To: C19fan

OK, good. Since the majority of Americans support Trump and will elect him again, then the Left should run to get away from this Nazi regime. And don’t come back.


85 posted on 01/13/2020 9:55:31 AM PST by mikeus_maximus (The Truth does not require our agreement.)
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To: central_va
You know you have beaten them when the start calling your side a cult.

Exaaaactly!

"We speak your name."


86 posted on 01/13/2020 9:55:47 AM PST by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: yesthatjallen

I had never seen that SNL segment. WTFreakingHeck? Unbelievable. Excuse me while I go throw up.


87 posted on 01/13/2020 9:57:28 AM PST by Reddy ( B.O. stinks)
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To: C19fan

My guess is her pussy hat is on too tight.


88 posted on 01/13/2020 9:59:45 AM PST by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches anything.)
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To: bagster

It’s pretty true. Some people will cheer anything he does, even if it is contradictory. But the Bernie Cult is much worse. They don’t even know where he stands on issues but they blindly support him. At least you know where Trump stands even if it was different from yesterday.


89 posted on 01/13/2020 10:02:05 AM PST by AppyPappy (How many fingers am I holding up, Winston?)
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To: aquila48

Old picture. She is still fine at 51. Liberal mind rot.


90 posted on 01/13/2020 10:08:25 AM PST by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches anything.)
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To: C19fan

Not even 2 sentences in and an Adolf reference; how dumb.


91 posted on 01/13/2020 10:10:42 AM PST by KC_Conspirator
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
The Los Angeles Slimes come out of the closet. "Mediocrity" is one of those elitist terms used by entertainment industry nitwits and other leftist morons trying to project due to feelings of inferiority.

Partisan Media Shills update.


92 posted on 01/13/2020 10:10:46 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: C19fan

She uses the term recklessly.


93 posted on 01/13/2020 10:12:51 AM PST by MortMan (Americans are a people increasingly separated by our connectivity.)
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To: outofsalt
She is still fine at 51.

Remember, cult meeting tonight to sacrifice liberals in the big leach pit. You can be excused to go to an optician.

94 posted on 01/13/2020 10:15:42 AM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: C19fan

One one side, you have people giving statics and reasons for supporting someone.

On the other side, you have hyper emotional infantile ignorant mindless hate for someone

Which of those two sounds more cult like?


95 posted on 01/13/2020 10:20:07 AM PST by MNJohnnie (They would have abandon leftism to achieve sanity. Freeper Olog-hai)
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To: C19fan

It appears that Virginia Heggernan needs a good still drink.


96 posted on 01/13/2020 10:21:16 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: C19fan

Um...no.

Progressivism is a cult.


97 posted on 01/13/2020 10:26:18 AM PST by polymuser (It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and so few by deceit. Noel Coward)
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To: C19fan

The ‘ONE’ who seemed to have a ‘halo’ back of his head in the background.
And other subliminal images.


98 posted on 01/13/2020 10:34:25 AM PST by TribalPrincess2U (0bama's agenda�Divide and conquer seems to be working.?)
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To: C19fan
Quick Google search shows that she has porked out big-time, since Trump was elected. TDS??


99 posted on 01/13/2020 10:48:35 AM PST by simpson96
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To: dragnet2

Oh, my! Never mind...
I too must have seen some older closeups. Yeesh!


100 posted on 01/13/2020 10:48:43 AM PST by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches anything.)
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