astonishing survey of the history of this kind of mass death, death cults, makes the point that there are actually people out there saying that death is better, death is better than having to deal with masks or vaccines, public health protocols. >> yes. for instance, there is an extraordinary piece in the right-wing magazine, the federalist, that was published last fall, written by its executive editor, which is a right around the time i was beginning to look at this. when i decided, i made a joke, here or there, in the past about ritual sacrifice and trumpism being a cult. but i started thinking, wait, is this just a figure of speech? is this just rhetoric? and i started studying the history of it. anyhow, one thing you find as you look at where this takes place it's in places where the state governments and the