Claiming Trump is a cult leader is the latest newsroom fad, via @BecketAdams washex.am/2LgCIEC
Certain members of the media need to get out more often. They are doing that thing again where they are all saying the exact same thing.
The latest fad promoted by members of the commentariat involves alleging that Republicans and Trump supporters are members of a “cult.”
The latest fad promoted by members of the commentariat involves alleging that Republicans and Trump supporters are members of a “cult.”
Edgy stuff — almost as edgy as it was in 2016.
“Increasingly, President Trump’s support seems cultish,” disgraced newsman @DanRather said Nov. 17 during an appearance on CNN’s ironically named Reliable Sources.
“Increasingly, President Trump’s support seems cultish,” disgraced newsman @DanRather said Nov. 17 during an appearance on CNN’s ironically named Reliable Sources.
“These cults, cults generally don’t end well. People will say it’s too much to say it’s a cult. I don’t think so.”
Later, on Nov. 24, Reliable Sources hosted so-called mind control expert Steven Hassan to lend credibility to Rather’s “cult” characterization.
Later, on Nov. 24, Reliable Sources hosted so-called mind control expert Steven Hassan to lend credibility to Rather’s “cult” characterization.
“I define a destructive cult ... with someone at the top who claims to have total power and total wisdom that uses deception and control of behavior, information, thoughts and emotions to make people loyal and dependent and obedient followers,” the ‘expert’ said.
CNN host @BrianStelter asked, with a straight face,: “You say the president is using mind control. But how is it provable?”
“We can start with the pathological lying,” Hassan said, “which is characteristic of destructive cult leaders saying things in a very confident way that have nothing to do with facts or truthfulness. … His use of fear-mongering, immigration is a horrible thing."
Stelter, still with a straight face, commented, “It is frightening to hear a cult expert say that you see all these signs right now today in American politics.”
The next day, on Nov. 25, MSNBC’s Donny Douche wondered aloud, “I don’t know what the spell Trump has over [the Right] — obviously, we talk a lot about a cult leader.”
On CNN, embittered former Trump hanger-on @Scaramucci said that the modern GOP and its base represent a “personality cult.”
“It’s a cult of personality, and you can’t offend the president,” MSNBC’s Katy Tur said the same day while explaining why more Republican lawmakers are not openly criticizing the president.
Later that evening, MSNBC contributor and time-traveling cyberhacker truther @MalcolmNance compared Trump supporters to the Islamic State, a satanic death cult.
“You know,” Nance said, “the behaviors that I am seeing here, and this is anecdotal, are very similar to the way that ISIS members are. They are true believers — and this is their reality, and they will not surrender it. You know, they’re dead-enders.”
The Los Angeles Times published an op-ed on Nov. 26 titled, “The cult of Trump faces the calm of Adam Schiff.”
On Nov. 27, CNN published an op-ed claiming that “many formerly respectable politicians” have joined a “cult devoted to Trump's conspiracy theories and self-serving claims,” adding that Republicans “see survival in joining the cult that degrades the nation... more every day.”
Lastly, there is MSNBC’s Joy Reid, who said on Nov. 30 that “it isn’t just a pejorative to say that it’s a cult" that supports the president.
"There’s a lot of evidence that is a racial and religious cult of personality in which his base is solidly among the white evangelicals that almost worship him and say that he’s the chosen one of God,” she added.
