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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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As opposed to people who worshiped at the feet of Obama.
1 posted on 01/13/2020 8:41:46 AM PST by C19fan
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To: C19fan

Cult 45, works every time. Ask the mullahs.


2 posted on 01/13/2020 8:43:33 AM PST by romanesq (8Chan and its child porn, violence and murders are kaput. So is the QAnon grift with it.)
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“As opposed to people who worshiped at the feet of Obama.”

Or JFK, or RFK, or MLK, or ...

This article is childish.


3 posted on 01/13/2020 8:44:00 AM PST by rightwingcrazy (;-,)
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Guessin' she doesn't care for PDJT then?😵😆
4 posted on 01/13/2020 8:44:12 AM PST by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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Just enjoy the ride. Every time he makes you smile or laugh during a rally, take a drink.we love that game


5 posted on 01/13/2020 8:44:38 AM PST by cnsmom
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It’s called liberty, ya’ gun-grabbing, baby-killing biotch


6 posted on 01/13/2020 8:45:09 AM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: C19fan

Trump is the first President in 30 years to side with the Constitution, the citizens, and the rule of law.

That explains our loyalty to him, he is loyal to US.


7 posted on 01/13/2020 8:45:18 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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We’re like the mooonies in the Church of Trump.


8 posted on 01/13/2020 8:45:59 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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Right-THOSE f*&ks would fight each other to death over his toenail clippings…. but support for Trump is a cult???


9 posted on 01/13/2020 8:46:12 AM PST by SMARTY ("Nobility is defined by the demands it makes on us - by obligations, not by rights".)
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“As opposed to people who worshiped at the feet of Obama.”

(In bm best Bartell LaRue Guardian of the Gate voice)

All who did before still do.


10 posted on 01/13/2020 8:46:27 AM PST by treetopsandroofs
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To: rightwingcrazy
Perhaps contrary to "it's" claim of not being wreckless? 😆
11 posted on 01/13/2020 8:46:48 AM PST by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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The Virgin Heffalump weighs in...


12 posted on 01/13/2020 8:47:28 AM PST by kiryandil (Chris Wallace: Because someone has to drive the Clown Car)
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Or
We simply like the results


13 posted on 01/13/2020 8:48:00 AM PST by Spruce
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The Obama Cult, complete with schoolchildren singing Obama songs and free phones from the deity, himself, seems a better example than whatever tortured analogy the author is attempting.


14 posted on 01/13/2020 8:48:05 AM PST by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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You know you have beaten them when the start calling your side a cult.


15 posted on 01/13/2020 8:48:08 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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Yet, you don’t see school children being taught worship songs about him.


16 posted on 01/13/2020 8:48:39 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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Author is a nut job.


17 posted on 01/13/2020 8:48:53 AM PST by The_Media_never_lie (Please, oh pretty please let Crazy Uncle Joe Biden be the nominee.)
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TRUMP.45! THE ONE AND ONLY!
GunnyG@PLANETWTF?/WNW!
*************************


18 posted on 01/13/2020 8:49:21 AM PST by gunnyg ("A Constitution changed from Freedom, can never be restored; Liberty, once lost, is lost forever...)
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Drivel, devoid of substance and poorly written too.


19 posted on 01/13/2020 8:49:22 AM PST by subterfuge (RIP T.P.)
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I’m sick of these liberal threads.


20 posted on 01/13/2020 8:49:54 AM PST by TakebackGOP
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