Cult!

How many times have we heard that THIS is was the thing that was going to cause Trump's cultish followers to turn against him? There have been so many lines in the sand that have had the media, both traditional journalists and social media keyboard warriors, predicting that Trump was done. There would be stories and posts about some Trump supporter claiming that they regretted voting for him. There have been rumblings when something that actually affecting his base happened. When he mocked the Q-Anon faction for falling for a "Democrat Hoax" in regard to the Epstein Files, when grocery prices failed to come down, and now, when we can watch gas prices go up every day, people were convinced that he was done. 

I don't believe it. 

Every one of these events has resulted in infighting among Trump voters, and every time the supposed outrage had faded away. They stayed loyal to their cult leader. I spoke with someone the other day who spoke vehemently about the stupidity of starting the war with Iran, but after barely taking a breath he wanted to know why anti-Trump people couldn't just admit the good that he was doing, or why "they" couldn't just get out of his way and let him do his job. He was already backpedaling before he got the end of his sentence. 

I was part of a religious cult for a significant portion of my adult life. Cult don't have to be, and usually aren't, peopled by glassy-eyed zombies chanting whatever the leader told them to say. They generally aren't sequestered away in a "compound" somewhere, or ready to commit mass suicide at a moment's notice. Cultists often have opinions that differ from what the cult leader is saying. There are occasionally internal turf wars. But what they always agree on is that they will defend the leader and his people from outsiders. No matter how divorced from reality Trump's words and actions become, no matter how his actions make their own lives more difficult, they will always close ranks against the Democrats, the liberals, the foreigners.

Maybe they will no longer be mesmerized now that the latest thing hits the fan.

I'll believe it when I see it.