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Abraham Washington's avatar

Insightful and disturbing; very well written.

The combination of a psychopathic/narcissistic Leader + his network of opportunistic enablers & apologists + a mass of delusional, devoted, and well-armed followers = a dangerous nationalist cult on the level of North Korea's Kim or Nazi Germany's Hitler.

Thank you for your analysis, and warning.

In 1935 Sinclair Lewis wrote "It Can't Happen Here" about exactly this phenomenon; well, it can and is happening here.

I think it can only be stopped by a huge Blue Wave in 2024 that washes away this whole Trump/MAGA cult; and America better get ready to do that or else this psychopath and his team will be back in power, and God help us then.

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Marycat2021's avatar

The whole messianic thing is ridiculous. Trump had four years in the WH, plenty of time for him to MAGA his fat old ass off, but instead, his followers saw a "great president" who helped 300,000 people to die of covid, rolled back important environmental laws, yanked 5,000 American military personnel from Afghanistan (while blaming Joe Biden for the less than perfect withdrawal), gave millions of people food poisoning every year by deregulating the food production industry, damn near caused a war with Iran, and gave top secret information to his Russian friends - and much more.

What worries me the most is how dangerous cults and their leaders can be. He sounds like every mad king and militant narcissist to pop up within the past 100 years. People are so gullible, especially those who have chips on their shoulders and are convinced they must help save the country from blah, blah, blah.

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