A CNN interview began by noting that Dan Rather, former White House aide Anthony Scaramucci and Republican strategist John Weaver all say "the GOP is not a party anymore in the traditional sense it's a cult."
Author Hassan told CNN:
"Trump's organization and followership [are] a destructive cult where people are being fed propaganda and they're not being encouraged to think for themselves... Much of what they're hearing is emotionally-driven, loaded words."
He said cults are pyramids "with someone at the top who claims to have total power and total wisdom and uses deception and control of behavior, information, thoughts and emotions to make people loyal and dependent and obedient followers."
Hassan added:
"Pathological lying is characteristic of destructive cult leaders saying things in a very confident way that have nothing to do with facts or truthfulness blaming others and never taking responsibility for his own failures and faults shunning and kicking out anyone who raises questions or concerns about his own behavior his use of fear-mongering [calling] immigration a 'horrible thing' [saying] the press is the enemy of the people. That's what Hubbard would say. That's what Moon said. That's what LaRouche said. Why? Because they're demagogues."
Does all this ring true? I think so, at least partly.
Next time you see followers adoring Trump, maybe you'll get at least a whiff of Jonestown.
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