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  1. Trump's followers were led down a dark rabbit hole, chasing the BIG LIE that was fed to them morning noon and night, lies from the mouth of a well established con-man. What happened to them is similar to what happened to members of the Donner party. In the spring of 1846, a group of nearly 90 emigrants left Springfield, Illinois, and headed west, led by brothers Jacob and George Donner. The Donner party decided to leave the well established trail and take a new and supposedly shorter route to California. They were instructed to get off of the main trail, and take a so called shorter route by an unscrupulous huckster named Lansford Hastings. They soon encountered rough terrain and numerous delays, and they eventually became trapped by heavy snowfall high in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. They were soon reduced to mu.rder and cannibalism to survive through the winter, only half of the original group reached California the following year. The moral of this story is simple, stay on the main roads that are well marked, and well lit. And never listen to con-men, who lead you down dark roads and rabbit holes. As Virginia Reed, a survivor of the Donner party, said in a letter of advice to a relative traveling to California a year later: "…Remember, never take no cut-offs, and hurry along as fast as you can."
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  2. Before Trump, the best modern-day example of a cult of personality was Kim Jong-un, the despotic dictator that Trump admires so much, and who he proudly declared his love for. Kim Jong-un's cult of personality paints him as a man who can do anything. According to this propaganda, he can climb tall mountains, even though like Trump, he is horrendously obese, and in terrible physical shape. Like Trump, Kim Jong Un brags about being able to make strong and intelligent military decisions, despite neither one of them having a military background. Psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton, who taught at Harvard Medical School, wrote a paper titled Cult Formation in the early 1980s. He delineated  primary characteristics, which are the most common features shared by destructive cults, destructive cults like Trumpism.. 1. A charismatic leader, who increasingly becomes an object of worship as the general principles that may have originally sustained the group lose power. That is a living leader, who has no meaningful accountability and becomes the single most defining element of the group and its source of power and authority. 2. A process of indoctrination or education is in use that can be seen as coercive persuasion or thought reform commonly called "brainwashing". The culmination of this process can be seen by members of the group often doing things that are not in their own best interest, but consistently in the best interest of its leader. 3. The exploitation of group members by the leader and the ruling members. Here are some warning signs of a potentially unsafe group or leader. • Absolute authoritarianism without meaningful accountability. • No tolerance for questions or critical inquiry. • No meaningful financial disclosure regarding budget or expenses, such as an independently audited financial statement. • Unreasonable fear about the outside world, such as impending catastrophe, evil conspiracies and persecutions. • Former followers are always wrong in leaving, negative or even evil. • The group/leader is always right. • The group/leader is the exclusive means of knowing "truth" or receiving validation, no other process of discovery is acceptable or credible. "This man is a genius at every level! Why can't we all be like him? He must be something special, and we are clearly not. Ergo, let's listen to him since he knows best." -- Trump supporters As we've all seen, when it comes to the warning signs and characteristics of a cult, Trump and his followers check most of the boxes..
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