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The New Republic
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May 31, 2024 — This is the definition of a
cult: a demand for absolute loyalty to one person. And it's why cults can be so fragile. When
cult leader Jim Jones ...
He’s been in favor of a national health care system, and against it. Campaigned on raising taxes on the rich “so much my friends will hate me” but then cut their taxes to the tune of $2 trillion. Supportive of labor unions when campaigning and then appointing one of the most anti-labor lawyers in the country to run his Labor Department. In favor of, and then against, masks and vaccines. The list of flip-flops goes on and on.
Like his followers, Trump has been all over the map policy-wise. There’s no coherent organizing principle or philosophy of governance in Trump’s world: He changes positions on a whim and then demands that his devotees follow his new postures.
This is the definition of a cult: a demand for absolute loyalty to one person.
Cult leaders, demanding absolute loyalty, are typically psychopaths, putting their own needs and desires above those of their followers. They drain them of their money and mercilessly exploit them for power, sex, adulation, and status. They don’t give a damn about their followers beyond what the followers will do for or give to them.