The Trump Cult and Its Future Details
TRUMPISM EXAMINED-I am quite sure the majority of Trump supporters do not embrace the “theory” that the Democratic leaders are pedophile cannibal satanists whom Trump sought to destroy, to protect the children.
An amazing minority do, constituting a robust and vital idiot stratum within the Trump coalition. (It is not clear however what QAnon will play in the ongoing movement since its shaman-leader seems disillusioned and the religious prophecies of martial law and apocalypse have not materialized.)
From what I can gather the greater number eschew this mythology but stubbornly maintain that the 2020 election was stolen. They don’t necessarily believe it was stolen by space aliens in collusion with the Venezuelan communists who controlled the voting machines. But it was surely stolen by somebody. This is a central unifying doctrinal point for the Trump community.
in the republican party who are true trumpers are attracted to. and they believe that whatever he says is correct. it is not richard has, but it is sort of this cult of trump. and they believe that he knows what is best. and so suddenly, there is nothing wrong with what happened in helsinki, even though we re not sure what happened in helsinki. but they believe that donald trump who wants to establish a good relationship with putin, will be able to best putin, because they believe that trump can be the great negotiator as he has been telling them and not only with putin, but with north korea, right? with kim jong-un. and by the way, trump feels the same way about the special counsel bob mueller. i ll sit down with him and i ll face him down and i ll win that one.
itself, or if this is something at this point that s already baked in. the folks that were going to say, hey, donald trump, what he s offering, what he s selling, that s not real conservatism, that kind of argument. if they were going to be off the ship by 2016, and if they re not off by now, they re not going to get off. well, we have seen the president really double down on his base, those core supporters who are going to be with him no matter what. we have not seen him actually try to expand that base. and to win elections and to win midterms, you do need to expand that base. and when you re losing people, longtime conservatives like george will. we saw steve schmidt, the campaign manager in 2008 on the republican side, decide he s leaving the party and encouraging republicans to vote for democrats. we re hearing from mark sanford and even senators like bob corker saying that the republican leadership in congress has become sort of a cult of trump. that s a sign that the president
say, hey, donald trump, what he s offering, what he s selling, that s not real conservatism. that kind of argument, if they were going to be off the ship by 2016, and if they re not off by now, they re not going to get off. we have seen the president double down on his base, the core supporters who are going to be with him no matter what. we have not seen him expand that base. and to win elections, to win midterms, you do need to expand that base. and when you re losing longtime conservatives like george will. we saw steve schmidt decide he s leaving the party and encouraging republicans to vote for democrats. we re hearing from mark sanford and even senators like bob corker saying that the republican leadership in congress has become sort of a cult of trump. that s a sign that the president is not adding the support that he needs to his base in order to win in the midterms, that he s real really doubling down as we saw during the event day as we saw with the immigrant families with
be with him no matter what. we have not seen him expand that base. and to win elections, to win midterms, you do need to expand that base. and when you re losing longtime conservatives like george will. we saw steve schmidt decide he s leaving the party and encouraging republicans to vote for democrats. we re hearing from mark sanford and even senators like bob corker saying that the republican leadership in congress has become sort of a cult of trump. that s a sign that the president is not adding the support that he needs to his base in order to win in the midterms, that he s really doubling down as we saw during the event day as we saw with the immigrant families with divisive policies, divisive issues that appeal to a very small minorities within his base, but do not expand the majority he s going to need to hold congress, to hold the house. that s very clear that the president s really looking to continue to double down, continue to focus on divisive