The biggest cult in history

It seems it doesn’t matter what Trump does, or says, he can do, or say, no wrong in the eyes of millions of Americans. Even today, when he shrugs off his complicity in paying hush money to women so they wouldn’t embarrass him during the 2016 election campaign by saying “I did nothing wrong”.

I saw someone on CNN the other day willingly supporting him in everything, and I mean everything, which might not be that surprising, except she was a black, female, doctor for Chrissakes. If he’s even got people like her on his side, things look very good for him winning the election in 2020.

A commentator pointed out yesterday that in effect Trump is the leader of a cult, and hence the biggest cult there has ever been, as it comprises about 1 in 3 of the American population, that is over 100 million people. People who slavishly support his xenophobic foreign and immigration policy, his destruction of the environment in favour of big business, and his trashing of anyone who has the temerity to disagree with him. This is how people behave towards the leaders of their cults, Bhagwan Sree Rajneesh, Jim Jones, Adolph Hitler to name a few.

There’s a lot of talk about his ‘base’, the core of supporters from ‘the Rust belt’ who want to see him drain the swamp (funny that, he’s deeper in that swamp than most, it turns out), and in a wider context, from the “Bible Belt”. People think this term applies to a strip of America going down the middle, but in fact the Bible Belt is actually all of America with the exception of the west and east coasts and a few liberal states. I sometimes wonder how the Democrats ever win anything...

Speaking of that, apparently it won’t do them any good to try to impeach Trump. First, it wouldn’t work, and second, it would so anger the base they would galvanize support and guarantee his re-election. So, Pelagius says, don’t go down that road. Provide an alternative, spend a lot of money to publicize it and hope he fucks up even worse than he has already. I wouldn’t rule it out. OK, he’s got a hundred million die-hard supporters. But that still leaves 200 million who might not vote for him. Please God...