Column: Call Trumpism what it is: a cult (via latimesopinion)
The comparisons have come hard and fast, at least since 2015. Trump is like Silvio Berlusconi, like Adolf Hitler, like Boris Johnson. A 2018 film called “The Trump Prophecy” took the evangelical route, comparing Trump to Cyrus the Great, the 6th century BC Persian monarch chosen by God to free Jewish captives in Babylon.
A lot of nut jobs have peddled lies to Americans before, and even styled themselves as messianic. But at no time in history have soAmericans been drawn to what’s looking increasingly like a cult. I don’t use the term recklessly.
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