Trump’s Cult of Animosity Shows No Sign of Letting Up. In 2016, Donald Trump recruited voters with the highest levels of animosity toward African Americans, assembling a schadenfreude electorate - voters who take pleasure in making the opposition suffer - that continues to dominate the Republican Party, even in the aftermath of the Trump presidency. The term “cult” gets thrown around a lot to describe the intense passion of Donald Trump’s followers-but is it accurate? For Steven Hassan, a former Moonie turned cult expert and author of The Cult of Trump, the answer is decidedly yes. Which pressure Because some fans say I did not put two strikers on, or journalists say I am too defensive I am not under pressure. Trump, he holds, has all the characteristics of a cult leader, and his followers the qualities of a cult, from the all-consuming devotion to a single malignant narcissist to the daily consumption of “alternative facts” to immunize them against cognitive dissonance (a.k.a. It’s a frightening prospect to consider millions of Americans being brainwashed by a reality-TV celebrity with a now defunct Twitter feed. There are a few secrets to the best classic, chewy chocolate chip cookies.Sprinkle each cookie with a tiny pinch of salt and bake in the preheated oven for 15-18 minutes, or until they are golden-brown on the edge and slightly paler in the centre. Our music must not be confined to the elite of some 30,000 or 50,000 people who can afford opera seats the hundreds of thousands of people who show up at. Though his departure from office has certainly shaken some of his most conspiracy-addled devotees, others are doubling down, insistent that Joe Biden’s inauguration is all part of Trump’s plan, or determined to follow him as he promises to “be back in some form.” And certainly not all of them will appreciate the somewhat condescending designation of “cult member.” The question is whether Trump’s followers can be “deprogrammed” the same way that, say, followers of Sun Myung Moon or L. Remove from the oven and transfer to a wire rack to cool before serving. Hassan says they can be, but the process will require not only empathy and individual family involvement but a wholesale change in how social media and information systems separate fact from dangerous fictions. “I would put undue influence or mind control as the number-two most important thing that we address for the planet,” he says. “Because otherwise authoritarianism, using social media, is a threat.” What follows is an edited transcript of our conversation. You’ve said in the past that Trump is “mentally ill.” Cult leaders themselves may be deluded or suffering from some mental pathology of some kind.
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