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[–] sylver_dragon@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

If you repeat a lie enough times, eventually you start to believe it. Others might also start believing it. Get enough people fully wrapped up in your lies and now you have a cult. Your cult followers will happily swallow any lie you tell them and defend it, often to the point of torture and death. This is pretty much where we are with MAGA, it's a cult of personality and it's followers will happily slurp up anything which dribbles out of Trump.

I'm curious to see if the cult outlives its original prophet. Once Trump kicks it, does the cult undergo a transition to a full blown religion? Or, does it fizzle out without it's original charismatic leader?