Every cult is held together by unwavering faith in the infallible wisdom of their charismatic leader, and the favor God has clearly bestowed on him. If the leader cannot be wrong, and his leadership is ordained by God almighty, conforming to his will can never be wrong. In the Third Reich, Hitler’s Thousand Year Reich, the Führer’s word was law. An army of Nazi lawyers (no other kind was allowed during Nazi rule) made sure that Hitler’s every gassy opinion was codified into German law where Nazi judges (the only judges in Nazi Germany) made sure the leader’s will was done. You can see this dynamic at work in cults of every size, the cardinal rule is that the will of the leader may never be questioned without severe, terrifying punishment for the questioner.
Cults abide by an insider’s worldview, members see the world through the eyes of the cult leader. Where millions may have seen live coverage of the brutal medieval mayhem caused by violent rioters who attacked outnumbered police and sent 140 to hospitals, these special rioters are beloved of their cult leader. He told them he loved them as he reluctantly asked them to stop ransacking the Capitol. He insists that their justified violence was part of a day of love the likes of which has never been seen in America. They heeded his invitation to come to a rally he promised would be wild. They roared as he stood behind bulletproof glass, in front of the wall he’d built around the White House, and recited dozens of knowing lies about a stolen election. They marched off ready to do battle for this lie when he exhorted them to fight like hell or they wouldn’t have a country anymore. They fought the police in trial by combat. People died. The joint session of Congress was halted for hours as an armed mob threatened lawmakers and the president watched it all on live TV for several hours, as his vice president hid from a lynch mob calling for his blood, after he tweeted that Mike Pence betrayed them.
After initial public condemnation of their insane leader, his party came around. The leader of the RNC, and every elected member of their party, quickly united to retool the violent, criminal breaking and entering and trespass that stopped certification of Biden’s win into “legitimate political discourse”. The leader called the rioters persecuted heroes, patriots and martyrs, and promised to use his powers to free them on Day One. Free them he did, every last one of these violent dupes. These battle hardened felons will now serve as the core of his personal militia.
It calls to mind the deal the current president struck with the Taliban not long before he left office the first time, kicking and screaming, after sixty lost lawsuits, a far-ranging criminal conspiracy and inciting a riot, what his AG pick brazenly referred to the other day as the “peaceful transfer of power”. As part of the Trump-brokered deal for US withdrawal from Afghanistan something like 5,000 violent Taliban prisoners held by the Afghan government would be released from prison. A few of them blew up some Marines as Biden was evacuating Americans from Afghanistan, and that stain was always smeared across Biden’s legacy, along with the Taliban’s immediate retaking of Afghanistan. That’s leadership, cult style, making sure to fuck your successor in every possible way, with an eye toward regaining power.
My family was all but wiped out in 1943 by killers let loose by the Hitler regime. Of the fourteen siblings that included my maternal grandparents before Hitler came through, only two, my grandparents, survived. I was moved by Merrick Garland’s story of how this country had saved his family from the Nazis, the US did the same for mine. Accidentally, of course, because the last of them arrived before the restrictive 1924 immigration law that would have kept them in Europe for a bullet in the back of the head, or drowning in a swamp, like the rest of the family. Garland was the wrong man for the job, as we all got an inkling of when he meekly submitted to bullying from Lyin’ Ted Cruz. Cruz angrily asked him if the Nazi salute, given to Jewish school board members by angry parents who believed their country had been stolen from them, was protected First Amendment expression. Garland placidly agreed it was. Cruz might as well have sneeringly added “Jew” to the end of his hostile, disrespectful, Nazi friendly question. Garland’s name is now in danger of going down with Neville Chamberlain’s, although not quite yet, as the ending of this hideous chapter remains to be written.
There is truth, what actually happened: dozens of frivolous, evidence free election lawsuits, a fake elector plot, a $50,000,000 ad buy to promote the lie about a stolen election, a plot by Republican congressmen to decertify the 2020 election results, a violent mob attack. There is the cult’s version of what happened: no fake electors, no ad buys, no plot, no violence — only the glory that led to a resurgent MAGA nation after an overwhelming 49% electoral mandate in a perfectly fair election. Voters who were not part of his loyal 35% base and cast ballots for him voted based on lies, deliberate disinformation spread by billionaires like Musk while the others remained as neutral as Switzerland or Sweden: raping, sodomizing Black immigrants eating family dogs and cats, Biden inflation, high food prices, high gas prices, Climate change fraud, out of control violent crime, wokeness, Jewish space lasers causing wildfires, a global cabal of deep state pedophile cannibals (Jews) manipulating stupid minorities to vote for lying, out of touch elites, etc.
There is the truth, and there is this Nazi bullshit. Kingmaker Elon Musk does a robust Nazi salute at the inauguration, a shout out to his German Nazi friends at the billionaires–only indoor inauguration. If we are a country incapable of uniting against divisive lies, hatred and openly Nazi aspirations, we’re done for. Me, I’m like Anne Frank, I guess, believing that the good in human hearts eventually conquers the evil inclinations unleashed by powerful psychopaths with ungodly gigantic megaphones, psychopaths who would willingly sacrifice millions of lives to ensure their permanent rule and the perpetuation of their lying version of history.
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