An Apocalypse of One: Of Cult Leaders, Messianic Delusion, and Radicalization.

Here are 15 bible verses about the character traits of the Antichrist, and which all point to Donald J. Trump as being the Man of Sin.
https://youtu.be/1014PFSIq-U
Cult leaders are, almost by definition, con artists who attain power by brainwashing, manipulating, robbing and exploiting their victims. Donald Trump is an unrepentant con artist who has leveraged his tremendous popularity into a sizable and scary cult.
https://jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/an-apocalypse-of-one-of-cult-leaders
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (executed by the Nazis in 1945) argued that stupid people are more dangerous than evil ones. This is because while we can protest against or fight evil people, against stupid ones we are defenseless as all attempts at reason fall on deaf ears.
https://youtu.be/ww47bR86wSc
Trump uses the same strategies and emotional appeals as con men and women and cult leaders. Just as con artists and cult leaders condition their victims/followers to not believe the skeptical outside voices of family members and friends and partners telling them they’re being exploited and deceived, Trump has drilled into his cult an unshakeable conviction that the most trusted voices in news are not to be trusted.
The disgraced, twice-impeached ex-president has weaponized the concept of “Fake News”, the idea that any reporting even vaguely critical of Trump is the work of evil partisans who will stop at nothing to hurt him. Trump has gas-lit a disturbingly large percentage of the country into thinking that a pathological liar with a long and utterly damning history of seemingly never telling the truth is the only news source his fans can trust.
That’s what con men and cult leaders do: they convince their marks that they’re the only people telling the truth and acting in their best interests, and that the people in their lives who actually are telling the truth and acting in their best interests are secretly their enemies and are conspiring against them. Con artists and cult leaders make their victims believe that the world as they know it is in fact a poisonous lie and usher them into a secret world full of drama and intrigue, danger and excitement. That’s Trump when he warns ominously about the dangers of the Deep State, the evils of Big Tech, the brazenly Communist Democratic Party, the hypocrisy of Hollywood and of course the evil propaganda of the Fake News media.
https://youtu.be/lx0_9OB9u_c
QAnon amplified the cult nature of Trump’s appeal and popularity. If Trump’s fans were very cult-like before the emergence of QAnon, the paranoid, delusional belief system is unmistakably a pretty extreme cult. QAnon transformed Trump’s “war” with the Deep State into a lurid, hyper-sexual right wing fever dream, part fantasy, part nightmare. It posited a deranged narcissist incapable of caring about anyone other than himself as a savior figure too modest to reveal the true depth and nature of his heroism. It’s not easy to break the bond and the brainwashing of con men and cult leaders, since they are very good at getting people to think what they want them to think and do what they want them to do. That’s why it can take victims years, even decades, to realize that they’ve been had. By that point they’re so invested in their world of lies that leaving it can be traumatic.
https://www.nathanrabin.com/happy-place/2022/3/29/cult-leaders-con-men-and-donald-trump
100+ Examples Of Donald Trump’s Corruption.
From his many frauds as a businessman to his authoritarian administration, Donald Trump has lived a life of corruption and criminality. We've compiled all of his publicly known corrupt acts in one place.
https://rantt.com/100-trump-corrupt-acts

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