Donald Trump is a Cult Leader

I was thinking back on George W. Bush’s time as president and how a bunch of us would call him dumb and how he’d given us plenty of evidence, so much so that even some of his own supporters would say things like, “Look, I know what it looks/sounds like, he comes off dumb, but (fill in the blank with dumb excuse why he’s a good prez, like Iraq or his daddy). You get none of that with Trump. No admittance of stupidity, shame, or embarrassment. His supporters fully back everything about their loud mouth hero, glass of Kool-Aid in hand.

His followers put him on a pedestal and judge him by different standards than they judged other presidents of the past. Before 2016, I knew many Republican-leaning type people who would say that the Repubs were more “presidential,” than the Dems. That’d be their last leg to stand on usually when all else failed and they’d even use it sometimes to attack Dems (Obama’s tan suit/fist bump/jump shot were “so unbecoming of how a president should act.” lol).

 Trump also denies science like any good religious zealot and his people go along with it despite everything they ever learned in science class.

It’s also why he seems to enjoy the company and praise of despotic world leaders. They share way more similarities with your run-of-the-mill cult leader than all of these other democratically elected holders-of-office with temporary terms who were elected through reasonable and decent measures.

Other similarities to cult leaders:

He puts his name on everything.

He likes everything gold.

He believes he’s above the rules.

He has a record full of questionably weird sex stuff.

Solution:

You can’t debate with people who are in a cult. There is no reasoning with them. Instead we should free all the immigrants at the “detention centers” at the border. Round up Trump supporters and put them in there for deprogramming. Don’t let them free until they’ve changed their ways. Deny them basic things like soap and a place to sleep and you’ll know they’re cured when they finally call the place a “concentration camp.”