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A review by safekeeper
The Cult of Trump: A Leading Cult Expert Explains How the President Uses Mind Control by Steven Hassan
challenging
dark
informative
relaxing
sad
5.0
As we're all coming to realize, the MAGA movement is not just a populist movement with a propensity for violence and authoritarianism, but a straight up cult, and as their members' behaviour and actions steadily grew more and more inexplicable, I picked up this book to help me understand what was going on inside their heads. The Cult of [Drumpf] was both very enlightening and incredibly chilling, going into detail both about how cults operate and how Drumpf and his movement so perfectly fits the bill. It helped explain to me why none of Dump's countless blunders, speeches full of confused rambling, or outright hateful rhetoric didn't seem to make any difference to his supporters in polling. The silver lining is that I've heard cults have a tendency to fall apart pretty quickly once their leader dies, and the Führer is 78 and in bad health.
By the way, I advise listening to the audio book at 1.2x speed as the narrator reads pretty slowly.
By the way, I advise listening to the audio book at 1.2x speed as the narrator reads pretty slowly.