It’s a genuine cult of personality.
What disturbs me the most is not Trump, because he’s going to flame out eventually.
I’m alarmed by the realization that some conservatives are as prone as liberals to cult-like worship of a politician, no matter how many times they hear the truth about the person.
If it happens once, it can happen again with another public figure.
At least they're not as bad as the Palinistas. I like Sarah. But I like even more tweaking her worshipers here at FR who go insane when even the slightest criticism is leveled.
Oops. Gotta go. The kids and I gotta drunken brawl to attend.
Remember the W worship? There are even a few of them still here on FR.
> “I’m alarmed by the realization that some conservatives are as prone as liberals to cult-like worship of a politician, no matter how many times they hear the truth about the person. If it happens once, it can happen again with another public figure.”
When you write “prone ... to cult-like worship” I take it to mean cheerleading and quips like “Go Trump!”, “Go the Donald!”, etc.
Is there ever a time when voters don’t do these things?
I mean “Go X!” and “Vote for X!”, etc. It seems your argument can be transferred to any public figure that voters enthusiatically support, ergo all voters usually gravitate to “cult-like worship”. Your alternative it seems (and which I support) would be that voters be serious, somber, aware and keep a watchful suspicious eye on any public figure that aspires to be a political leader; no cheerleading allowed. I’m all for that. But then I’m for rain on Mondays, sunbreaks on Tuesdays and sunny days on Saturdays and Sundays in my ordered Universe. The problem is reality gets in my way by trying to teach me that I don’t have control. So as an adaptive human being, I keep an umbrella handy. Should we accept that voters are going to be emotional no matter who the candidate is? What’s the alternative?
I've seen it many, many times over the years. There was Bushbots, Palinbots, and now Trumpbots.