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2016 Postmortem

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4. His voters

Reply to pbmus (Original post)

Wed Jan 4, 2017, 08:06 PM

Jan 2017

…behave like they've gotten caught in a cult. Cult-trance is exactly what this looks like.

To those not in the cult, the fakery of the demagogue is obvious. To cult members, the unpredictable behavior of the leader is thrilling——full of higher meanings and signs of infallibility.

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