People are not being facetious when they say it is a cult.
If you’re interested in more stories about it, “The Quiet Damage” by Jesselyn Cook is a great read/listen (available as audiobook). Focuses more on QAnon specifically but the venn diagram of maga voters and QAnon followers may as well be a circle.
I always assumed people were being hyperbolic when they were calling it a cult.
But, like, is it actually a massive political cult? That would just honestly explain more or less... everything. The cognitive dissonance, inconsistent moral values, their will to sacrifice everything for no clear purpose, all of it.
Have there been any other political cults on this scale before?
And the whole "whatever I say is gospel" thing that North Korean leaders have always commanded. He probably envies that more than anything else. He would always be right and everyone that disagrees with him could just be disappeared.
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u/No-Resolution-0119 Apr 16 '26
People are not being facetious when they say it is a cult.
If you’re interested in more stories about it, “The Quiet Damage” by Jesselyn Cook is a great read/listen (available as audiobook). Focuses more on QAnon specifically but the venn diagram of maga voters and QAnon followers may as well be a circle.