The Republican Party had become a cult

[Ireadforpleasure]

The Republican Party has become a cult

"It should be blatantly obvious by now that the Republican Party is a cult. The members of this cult somehow believe that Latino children and crying infants, locked in cages are somehow evil, but the guy who bragged about repeatedly sexually assaulting married women is somehow America’s savior."

-Joey Lyons

 

[Stephen_Coyle]

In my mind it all started (or perhaps accelerated) in the 1990's. Newt Gingrich began to turn the Republican Party into a party of anti-intellectualism, that was supposed to mindlessly oppose everything that Bill Clinton supported, and was supposed to speak in bumper-sticker slogans, instead of have actual policy debates.

Fox "news" Channel showed up right around the same time. They also spoke in bumper-sticker slogans and engaged in rumor-mongering, fear-mongering and hate-mongering, all the while referring to such childish performance-art as "news broadcasting". A marriage between Gingrich-Republicans and Fox "news" Channel was born...each supporting the other. No matter how insane the rhetoric or the legislation the Gingrich Republicans came out with, Fox "news" would dumb down the debate to the level or a bunch of grade-school kids on the playground and always cheer for the Gingrich Republicans, while mocking anything that President Bill Clinton was trying to do.

In the 1990's, Fox "news" and the Gingrich-Republicans mocked Bill Clinton for being "obsessed" with Osama bin Laden, and the Republicans tried to thwart Clinton's anti-terrorism goals. But in 2001, after the 9/11 terror attacks, Republicans did a 180 degree turn and claimed that Bill Clinton IGNORED Osama bin Laden and did NOTHING about terrorism for 8 years.

Fox "news" had no problem with this 180 degree turn and they echoed the Republican narrative. They claimed that the 9/11 terrorist attacks were Clinton's fault and that the nation of Sudan offered Clinton Osama bin Laden on a silver platter. It was a childish narrative. Anybody with even rudimentary research skills could debunk such claims, but by the year 2001, millions of Republicans had been so seriously dumbed-down, there was no risk of them doing any research.

Research was something those effeminate, fancy-talking liberals did! REAL MEN didn't do fact-checking or research! REAL MEN just listened to Bill O'Reilly and parroted his angry, right-wing talking points! And from 2001, it's just gotten worse and worse.

 

[Stephen_Coyle]

I first started comparing the Republican Party to a religious cult back in 2003. Back then, people mostly ignored what I said, and few (if any) people agreed with me that the Republicans were acting in a very cult-like manner.

I thought that the evidence of cult-like behavior was quite clear. Back then, Republicans were rejecting the evidence that they could see with their own two eyes, and instead they fervently embracing the words of their dear, infallible leaders.

Here’s an example of the sort of irrational, cult-like behavior I’m talking about. Back in 2002, Saddam Hussein allowed United Nations weapons inspectors into Iraq to search for any signs of nuclear weapons, chemical weapons, long-range missiles, or anything else that the Iraqi regime was forbidden to have.

Bush complained endlessly about the U.N. weapons inspectors. He referred to their inspections as a game of “hide-and-seek” and strongly hinted that the inspectors should be arresting Iraqi scientists and torturing them to force them to give up all their secrets about weapons of mass destruction.

That was in 2002, and millions of Republicans all seemed to agree with Bush’s assessments of the U.N. weapons inspectors. They mercilessly ridiculed the U.N. inspectors, and peppered Hans Blix with endless insults for not finding the ostensible weapons of mass destruction.

Then in 2003, George W. Bush claimed that he was FORCED to invade Iraq because Saddam Hussein refused to allow the U.N. weapons inspectors into Iraq. Thus, Bush and Cheney had NO CHOICE, but to invade to protect America’s national security.

Republicans had absolutely no problem agreeing with Bush when he said this.

For four months, Bush’s followers in the Republican Party had no problem insulting and ridiculing the work that the U.N. weapons inspectors were doing in Iraq. Then, in 2003, Bush claimed that the U.N. weapons inspectors WERE NEVER IN IRAQ, and Bush’s supporters had no problem agreeing with that either.

Even when Bush’s lies directly contradicted what he had said a few months earlier, his supporters had no trouble immediately accepting this lie. This is EXACTLY the sort of thing that goes on in religious cults! It doesn’t matter how nonsensical and obvious the lie, it will STILL BE BELIEVED if it comes from a high-ranking leader of the cult.

Well, that was back in 2003. It’s now 2019, and things haven’t gotten any better.

Nowadays, we have millions of Republicans with an unquestioning devotion to Trump and whatever his ideas may be at any given moment. Even when his ideas are blatantly irrational and puerile nonsense.

Consider a recent example. Trump has whipped up his supporters into a frenzy of irrational fear and hatred by repeatedly engaging in hysterics about a small group of Central Americans, fleeing poverty and violence, who are hoping to come to the U.S. border and apply for asylum.

Refusing to allow these poor, frightened, hungry, huddled asylum-seekers into the country would be bad enough, however, Trump and his accomplices concocted bizarre fear-mongering propaganda out of thin air and invented conspiracies about who is behind this group of impoverished migrants.

Pete, Hegseth, Sean Hannity, Jeanine Pirro, Newt Gingrich, Greg Jarrett, Tomi Lahren and other leaders of the Republican cult went over to Fox “news” Channel and referred to this group of frightened migrants (mostly women and children) as “an invasion” and “an act of attacking the United States' sovereignty”, planning to “storm our border” and “a threatening invading force.”

These migrants, many of whom are women and children escaping grinding poverty and violence in Central America, are tired, frightened and hungry. They are refugees, seeking asylum.

Trump refers to these asylum seekers as "very bad people" and "an invasion of our Country" and warns that "our Military is waiting for you!"

These are frightened women and children.

And Trump is basically saying that American soldiers will gun them down if they attempt to enter this country and apply for asylum.

This is like a doctor calling it "an invasion" if wounded people try to enter a hospital to seek medical attention, and warning that sheriffs and armed security guards will form a barrier around the hospital to stop them from entering.

Congressman Matt Gaetz (another leader of the Republican cult) joined in on the fear-mongering and propaganda and publicly asked if Democratic donor George Soros was funding the Central-American migrants.

The question is pure childishness and propaganda, however, childish propaganda spreads like wildfire in the Republican cult, and other members of the Republican leadership have taken the absurd notion and run with it. The notion that Soros is the dark mastermind behind all kinds of movements is now deeply embedded in the Republican cult. He’s become an all-purpose boogeyman. Republican cult leader Steve King has taken it a step further and has accused Soros of backing a grand scheme to systematically introduce foreigners to replace “Americans” (in other words, whites) with “somebody else’s babies.”

These paranoid fantasies about impoverished, tired, frightened women and children being a threatening, invading force make no sense, however, millions of Republicans have embraced these fantasies and are cheering the notion that U.S. soldiers may gun them down if they attempt to cross the border and apply for asylum.

This is not rational behavior. Embracing paranoid fantasies, embracing irrational hatreds, embracing irrational fears and rejecting the evidence of your own eyes is demented and cult-like behavior. And yet, this is exactly what we see with MILLIONS of Republicans in America today.

Are the American people starting to see it now? Are they starting to see what I mean when I say the Republican Party is acting more and more like a cult and less and less like a legitimate political party?

 

[Schlank]

"It should be blatantly obvious by now that the Republican Party is a cult. The members of this cult somehow believe that Latino children and crying infants, locked in cages are somehow evil, but the guy who bragged about repeatedly sexually assaulting married women is somehow America’s savior."

-Joey Lyons

Republicans are basically a cult. They embrace greed, cruelty and misogyny, yet try to make themselves sound noble by claiming that feminists, atheists, scientists, journalists, public school teachers, college professors, biologists, Mexicans, gays, lesbians and other minorities are the truly evil people, and then lashing out religiously against them.

 

[Leather_Lesbian]

“The Republican Party is becoming less and less like a traditional political party in a representative democracy and more like an apocalyptic cult, or one of the intensely ideological authoritarian parties of 20th century Europe.”

-Mike Lofgren

 

[BotanyBoy]

“The Republican Party is becoming less and less like a traditional political party in a representative democracy and more like an apocalyptic cult, or one of the intensely ideological authoritarian parties of 20th century Europe.”

-Mike Lofgren

Mike Lofgren needs to check his definitions, the most open and proudly authoritarians in the US are the "progressive" democrats.

 

[Fuzzy1975]

Mike Lofgren needs to check his definitions, the most open and proudly authoritarians in the US are the "progressive" democrats.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/700

Just out of curiosity, how do you balance your patriotism, and love of country against this?

 

[BotanyBoy]

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/700

Just out of curiosity, how do you balance your patriotism, and love of country against this?

It's not in conflict with my patriotism and love of country.

It is in conflict with my ideals, people shouldn't be fined or imprisoned for disrespecting the flag.

 

[Fuzzy1975]

It's not in conflict with my patriotism and love of country.

It is in conflict with my ideals, people shouldn't be fined or imprisoned for disrespecting the flag.

So you flaunt the rule of law with your Avatar? Again just an outsiders observation, but your Avatar is a protest against...?

 

[gunthernehmen]

I see absolutely no distinction between the two parties.

Both are corrupt. The right at least claims to believe in personal responsibility, so that's the side I support.

And, honestly, I do enjoy seeing Trump make people squirm.

 

[JackLuis]

I see absolutely no distinction between the two parties.

Both are corrupt. The right at least claims to believe in personal responsibility, so that's the side I support.

And, honestly, I do enjoy seeing Trump make people squirm.

Yes, personal responsibility, that is Donald Trump, he never blames anyone else for his difficulties, he just accepts responsibility for his actions... and dares people to catch him! (snark)

The party can hardly call themselves Republican any longer, Rethuglicunts had taken over the R party and made it into a cult of unstable personality, which they conger up from whole cloth.

 

[gunthernehmen]

Yes, personal responsibility, that is Donald Trump, he never blames anyone else for his difficulties, he just accepts responsibility for his actions... and dares people to catch him! (snark)

The party can hardly call themselves Republican any longer, Rethuglicunts had taken over the R party and made it into a cult of unstable personality, which they conger up from whole cloth.

Right.

Just different names for the same thing. Surprising to find you agree with me, but here we are.

 

[icanhelp1]

I first started comparing the Republican Party to a religious cult back in 2003. Back then, people mostly ignored what I said, and few (if any) people agreed with me that the Republicans were acting in a very cult-like manner.

I thought that the evidence of cult-like behavior was quite clear. Back then, Republicans were rejecting the evidence that they could see with their own two eyes, and instead they fervently embracing the words of their dear, infallible leaders.

Here’s an example of the sort of irrational, cult-like behavior I’m talking about. Back in 2002, Saddam Hussein allowed United Nations weapons inspectors into Iraq to search for any signs of nuclear weapons, chemical weapons, long-range missiles, or anything else that the Iraqi regime was forbidden to have.

Bush complained endlessly about the U.N. weapons inspectors. He referred to their inspections as a game of “hide-and-seek” and strongly hinted that the inspectors should be arresting Iraqi scientists and torturing them to force them to give up all their secrets about weapons of mass destruction.

That was in 2002, and millions of Republicans all seemed to agree with Bush’s assessments of the U.N. weapons inspectors. They mercilessly ridiculed the U.N. inspectors, and peppered Hans Blix with endless insults for not finding the ostensible weapons of mass destruction.

Then in 2003, George W. Bush claimed that he was FORCED to invade Iraq because Saddam Hussein refused to allow the U.N. weapons inspectors into Iraq. Thus, Bush and Cheney had NO CHOICE, but to invade to protect America’s national security.

Republicans had absolutely no problem agreeing with Bush when he said this.

For four months, Bush’s followers in the Republican Party had no problem insulting and ridiculing the work that the U.N. weapons inspectors were doing in Iraq. Then, in 2003, Bush claimed that the U.N. weapons inspectors WERE NEVER IN IRAQ, and Bush’s supporters had no problem agreeing with that either.

Even when Bush’s lies directly contradicted what he had said a few months earlier, his supporters had no trouble immediately accepting this lie. This is EXACTLY the sort of thing that goes on in religious cults! It doesn’t matter how nonsensical and obvious the lie, it will STILL BE BELIEVED if it comes from a high-ranking leader of the cult.

Well, that was back in 2003. It’s now 2019, and things haven’t gotten any better.

Nowadays, we have millions of Republicans with an unquestioning devotion to Trump and whatever his ideas may be at any given moment. Even when his ideas are blatantly irrational and puerile nonsense.

Consider a recent example. Trump has whipped up his supporters into a frenzy of irrational fear and hatred by repeatedly engaging in hysterics about a small group of Central Americans, fleeing poverty and violence, who are hoping to come to the U.S. border and apply for asylum.

Refusing to allow these poor, frightened, hungry, huddled asylum-seekers into the country would be bad enough, however, Trump and his accomplices concocted bizarre fear-mongering propaganda out of thin air and invented conspiracies about who is behind this group of impoverished migrants.

Pete, Hegseth, Sean Hannity, Jeanine Pirro, Newt Gingrich, Greg Jarrett, Tomi Lahren and other leaders of the Republican cult went over to Fox “news” Channel and referred to this group of frightened migrants (mostly women and children) as “an invasion” and “an act of attacking the United States' sovereignty”, planning to “storm our border” and “a threatening invading force.”

These migrants, many of whom are women and children escaping grinding poverty and violence in Central America, are tired, frightened and hungry. They are refugees, seeking asylum.

Trump refers to these asylum seekers as "very bad people" and "an invasion of our Country" and warns that "our Military is waiting for you!"

These are frightened women and children.

And Trump is basically saying that American soldiers will gun them down if they attempt to enter this country and apply for asylum.

This is like a doctor calling it "an invasion" if wounded people try to enter a hospital to seek medical attention, and warning that sheriffs and armed security guards will form a barrier around the hospital to stop them from entering.

Congressman Matt Gaetz (another leader of the Republican cult) joined in on the fear-mongering and propaganda and publicly asked if Democratic donor George Soros was funding the Central-American migrants.

The question is pure childishness and propaganda, however, childish propaganda spreads like wildfire in the Republican cult, and other members of the Republican leadership have taken the absurd notion and run with it. The notion that Soros is the dark mastermind behind all kinds of movements is now deeply embedded in the Republican cult. He’s become an all-purpose boogeyman. Republican cult leader Steve King has taken it a step further and has accused Soros of backing a grand scheme to systematically introduce foreigners to replace “Americans” (in other words, whites) with “somebody else’s babies.”

These paranoid fantasies about impoverished, tired, frightened women and children being a threatening, invading force make no sense, however, millions of Republicans have embraced these fantasies and are cheering the notion that U.S. soldiers may gun them down if they attempt to cross the border and apply for asylum.

This is not rational behavior. Embracing paranoid fantasies, embracing irrational hatreds, embracing irrational fears and rejecting the evidence of your own eyes is demented and cult-like behavior. And yet, this is exactly what we see with MILLIONS of Republicans in America today.

Are the American people starting to see it now? Are they starting to see what I mean when I say the Republican Party is acting more and more like a cult and less and less like a legitimate political party?

YOU TALK TOO MUCH!!

 

[domroger]

YOU TALK TOO MUCH!!

Stop shouting it's rude .

 

[BotanyBoy]

So you flaunt the rule of law with your Avatar?

Again just an outsiders observation, but your Avatar is a protest against...?

It's not flaunting the rule of law nor is it a protest.

It's a show of affection for the USA and what it stands for....as well as the Punisher, my favorite comic character.

Conan was close, but wrong, doing bad things to bad people is what is best in life.

 

[Fuzzy1975]

It's a show of affection for the USA and what it stands for

Conan was close, but wrong, doing bad things to bad people is what is best in life.

Ok you sure fooled me

 

[YDB95]

I see absolutely no distinction between the two parties.

Both are corrupt. The right at least claims to believe in personal responsibility, so that's the side I support.

In other words, you freely admit they're full of it but you support them because they SAY what you like, even though you know they don't really mean it? Well, you're entitled to your opinion.

 

[gunthernehmen]

In other words, you freely admit they're full of it but you support them because they SAY what you like, even though you know they don't really mean it? Well, you're entitled to your opinion.

I guess I could support the party that is just as full of it but says things I DON'T like, but that would also be hypocritical and kinda stupid, to boot.

But, as you say, you're entitled to your opinion.

 

[YDB95]

I guess I could support the party that is just as full of it but says things I DON'T like, but that would also be hypocritical and kinda stupid, to boot.

But, as you say, you're entitled to your opinion.

Based on what I've seen you say here elsewhere, it looks to me like your problem with the Democrats is the promises they DO keep, or would if they were in power.

 

[gunthernehmen]

Based on what I've seen you say here elsewhere, it looks to me like your problem with the Democrats is the promises they DO keep, or would if they were in power.

You mean the persistent attempts to ruin our economy and relegate our healthcare system to third world status? Those are the things that I don't like about them.

 

[magicalmoments]

I first started comparing the Republican Party to a religious cult back in 2003. Back then, people mostly ignored what I said, and few (if any) people agreed with me that the Republicans were acting in a very cult-like manner.

I thought that the evidence of cult-like behavior was quite clear. Back then, Republicans were rejecting the evidence that they could see with their own two eyes, and instead they fervently embracing the words of their dear, infallible leaders.

Here’s an example of the sort of irrational, cult-like behavior I’m talking about. Back in 2002, Saddam Hussein allowed United Nations weapons inspectors into Iraq to search for any signs of nuclear weapons, chemical weapons, long-range missiles, or anything else that the Iraqi regime was forbidden to have.

Bush complained endlessly about the U.N. weapons inspectors. He referred to their inspections as a game of “hide-and-seek” and strongly hinted that the inspectors should be arresting Iraqi scientists and torturing them to force them to give up all their secrets about weapons of mass destruction.

That was in 2002, and millions of Republicans all seemed to agree with Bush’s assessments of the U.N. weapons inspectors. They mercilessly ridiculed the U.N. inspectors, and peppered Hans Blix with endless insults for not finding the ostensible weapons of mass destruction.

Then in 2003, George W. Bush claimed that he was FORCED to invade Iraq because Saddam Hussein refused to allow the U.N. weapons inspectors into Iraq. Thus, Bush and Cheney had NO CHOICE, but to invade to protect America’s national security.

Republicans had absolutely no problem agreeing with Bush when he said this.

For four months, Bush’s followers in the Republican Party had no problem insulting and ridiculing the work that the U.N. weapons inspectors were doing in Iraq. Then, in 2003, Bush claimed that the U.N. weapons inspectors WERE NEVER IN IRAQ, and Bush’s supporters had no problem agreeing with that either.

Even when Bush’s lies directly contradicted what he had said a few months earlier, his supporters had no trouble immediately accepting this lie. This is EXACTLY the sort of thing that goes on in religious cults! It doesn’t matter how nonsensical and obvious the lie, it will STILL BE BELIEVED if it comes from a high-ranking leader of the cult.

Well, that was back in 2003. It’s now 2019, and things haven’t gotten any better.

Nowadays, we have millions of Republicans with an unquestioning devotion to Trump and whatever his ideas may be at any given moment. Even when his ideas are blatantly irrational and puerile nonsense.

Consider a recent example. Trump has whipped up his supporters into a frenzy of irrational fear and hatred by repeatedly engaging in hysterics about a small group of Central Americans, fleeing poverty and violence, who are hoping to come to the U.S. border and apply for asylum.

Refusing to allow these poor, frightened, hungry, huddled asylum-seekers into the country would be bad enough, however, Trump and his accomplices concocted bizarre fear-mongering propaganda out of thin air and invented conspiracies about who is behind this group of impoverished migrants.

Pete, Hegseth, Sean Hannity, Jeanine Pirro, Newt Gingrich, Greg Jarrett, Tomi Lahren and other leaders of the Republican cult went over to Fox “news” Channel and referred to this group of frightened migrants (mostly women and children) as “an invasion” and “an act of attacking the United States' sovereignty”, planning to “storm our border” and “a threatening invading force.”

These migrants, many of whom are women and children escaping grinding poverty and violence in Central America, are tired, frightened and hungry. They are refugees, seeking asylum.

Trump refers to these asylum seekers as "very bad people" and "an invasion of our Country" and warns that "our Military is waiting for you!"

These are frightened women and children.

And Trump is basically saying that American soldiers will gun them down if they attempt to enter this country and apply for asylum.

This is like a doctor calling it "an invasion" if wounded people try to enter a hospital to seek medical attention, and warning that sheriffs and armed security guards will form a barrier around the hospital to stop them from entering.

Congressman Matt Gaetz (another leader of the Republican cult) joined in on the fear-mongering and propaganda and publicly asked if Democratic donor George Soros was funding the Central-American migrants.

The question is pure childishness and propaganda, however, childish propaganda spreads like wildfire in the Republican cult, and other members of the Republican leadership have taken the absurd notion and run with it. The notion that Soros is the dark mastermind behind all kinds of movements is now deeply embedded in the Republican cult. He’s become an all-purpose boogeyman. Republican cult leader Steve King has taken it a step further and has accused Soros of backing a grand scheme to systematically introduce foreigners to replace “Americans” (in other words, whites) with “somebody else’s babies.”

These paranoid fantasies about impoverished, tired, frightened women and children being a threatening, invading force make no sense, however, millions of Republicans have embraced these fantasies and are cheering the notion that U.S. soldiers may gun them down if they attempt to cross the border and apply for asylum.

This is not rational behavior. Embracing paranoid fantasies, embracing irrational hatreds, embracing irrational fears and rejecting the evidence of your own eyes is demented and cult-like behavior. And yet, this is exactly what we see with MILLIONS of Republicans in America today.

Are the American people starting to see it now? Are they starting to see what I mean when I say the Republican Party is acting more and more like a cult and less and less like a legitimate political party?

Excellent analysis.

 

[gunthernehmen]

Excellent analysis.

I assume from your approval, that the wordy guy is a left wing nut. TLDR

 

[magicalmoments]

#20 above
In my opinion any country that does not provide a national health service for it citizens is third world.

 

[gunthernehmen]

#20 above
In my opinion any country that does not provide a national health service for it citizens is third world.

You're certainly entitled to your opinion.

Warren recently outlined how she can accomplish that for a measly $40 trillion dollars. Chicken feed.

 

[magicalmoments]

I first started comparing the Republican Party to a religious cult back in 2003. Back then, people mostly ignored what I said, and few (if any) people agreed with me that the Republicans were acting in a very cult-like manner.

I thought that the evidence of cult-like behavior was quite clear. Back then, Republicans were rejecting the evidence that they could see with their own two eyes, and instead they fervently embracing the words of their dear, infallible leaders.

Here’s an example of the sort of irrational, cult-like behavior I’m talking about. Back in 2002, Saddam Hussein allowed United Nations weapons inspectors into Iraq to search for any signs of nuclear weapons, chemical weapons, long-range missiles, or anything else that the Iraqi regime was forbidden to have.

Bush complained endlessly about the U.N. weapons inspectors. He referred to their inspections as a game of “hide-and-seek” and strongly hinted that the inspectors should be arresting Iraqi scientists and torturing them to force them to give up all their secrets about weapons of mass destruction.

That was in 2002, and millions of Republicans all seemed to agree with Bush’s assessments of the U.N. weapons inspectors. They mercilessly ridiculed the U.N. inspectors, and peppered Hans Blix with endless insults for not finding the ostensible weapons of mass destruction.

Then in 2003, George W. Bush claimed that he was FORCED to invade Iraq because Saddam Hussein refused to allow the U.N. weapons inspectors into Iraq. Thus, Bush and Cheney had NO CHOICE, but to invade to protect America’s national security.

Republicans had absolutely no problem agreeing with Bush when he said this.

For four months, Bush’s followers in the Republican Party had no problem insulting and ridiculing the work that the U.N. weapons inspectors were doing in Iraq. Then, in 2003, Bush claimed that the U.N. weapons inspectors WERE NEVER IN IRAQ, and Bush’s supporters had no problem agreeing with that either.

Even when Bush’s lies directly contradicted what he had said a few months earlier, his supporters had no trouble immediately accepting this lie. This is EXACTLY the sort of thing that goes on in religious cults! It doesn’t matter how nonsensical and obvious the lie, it will STILL BE BELIEVED if it comes from a high-ranking leader of the cult.

Well, that was back in 2003. It’s now 2019, and things haven’t gotten any better.

Nowadays, we have millions of Republicans with an unquestioning devotion to Trump and whatever his ideas may be at any given moment. Even when his ideas are blatantly irrational and puerile nonsense.

Consider a recent example. Trump has whipped up his supporters into a frenzy of irrational fear and hatred by repeatedly engaging in hysterics about a small group of Central Americans, fleeing poverty and violence, who are hoping to come to the U.S. border and apply for asylum.

Refusing to allow these poor, frightened, hungry, huddled asylum-seekers into the country would be bad enough, however, Trump and his accomplices concocted bizarre fear-mongering propaganda out of thin air and invented conspiracies about who is behind this group of impoverished migrants.

Pete, Hegseth, Sean Hannity, Jeanine Pirro, Newt Gingrich, Greg Jarrett, Tomi Lahren and other leaders of the Republican cult went over to Fox “news” Channel and referred to this group of frightened migrants (mostly women and children) as “an invasion” and “an act of attacking the United States' sovereignty”, planning to “storm our border” and “a threatening invading force.”

These migrants, many of whom are women and children escaping grinding poverty and violence in Central America, are tired, frightened and hungry. They are refugees, seeking asylum.

Trump refers to these asylum seekers as "very bad people" and "an invasion of our Country" and warns that "our Military is waiting for you!"

These are frightened women and children.

And Trump is basically saying that American soldiers will gun them down if they attempt to enter this country and apply for asylum.

This is like a doctor calling it "an invasion" if wounded people try to enter a hospital to seek medical attention, and warning that sheriffs and armed security guards will form a barrier around the hospital to stop them from entering.

Congressman Matt Gaetz (another leader of the Republican cult) joined in on the fear-mongering and propaganda and publicly asked if Democratic donor George Soros was funding the Central-American migrants.

The question is pure childishness and propaganda, however, childish propaganda spreads like wildfire in the Republican cult, and other members of the Republican leadership have taken the absurd notion and run with it. The notion that Soros is the dark mastermind behind all kinds of movements is now deeply embedded in the Republican cult. He’s become an all-purpose boogeyman. Republican cult leader Steve King has taken it a step further and has accused Soros of backing a grand scheme to systematically introduce foreigners to replace “Americans” (in other words, whites) with “somebody else’s babies.”

These paranoid fantasies about impoverished, tired, frightened women and children being a threatening, invading force make no sense, however, millions of Republicans have embraced these fantasies and are cheering the notion that U.S. soldiers may gun them down if they attempt to cross the border and apply for asylum.

This is not rational behavior. Embracing paranoid fantasies, embracing irrational hatreds, embracing irrational fears and rejecting the evidence of your own eyes is demented and cult-like behavior. And yet, this is exactly what we see with MILLIONS of Republicans in America today.

Are the American people starting to see it now? Are they starting to see what I mean when I say the Republican Party is acting more and more like a cult and less and less like a legitimate political party?

You compare the analysis above to, oh let's say one of dumps diatribes, and then have another go at identifying the nut.