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How do you deprogram millions of people? Seriously, it's hard for cult members to re-integrate back into society without support.
I worry about what happens when their 80-year-old leader dies (to be clear, that's an inevitability, not a specific wish) and they leave the Republican party but have nowhere to turn for community.
No Trump -no idol, no power, no motivation, no movement. One day, bro, one day.
how do you reprogram Christians?
You don't, you just tell them Jesus would've been socialist and give them proof.
My fear is that when he dies, they'll just replace him with a body double. My even bigger fear is that they've already done that.
Education. Why do you think fascists hate it
Why not? I'm actively rooting for it.
Just to be extra clear, for me, it is, in fact, a specific wish.
they will latch-on to whoever spews the same lies and hate the loudest.
It's been a cult for long before Trump came along, it was a cult looking for a leader. I googled "how to break people free from a cult" back in 2011. What i got out of it was you have to let people figure it out themselves. Confronting them makes them dig in deeper. Best thing to do is not make them fear an "I told you so" moment. We all have our pride
They're not going to leave the Republican party. They don't have specific beliefs or values diving their political expression. They embraced what it meant to be a Republican before Trump just as they embrace it now, even though those are two disparate worldviews. They will do the same after he is gone with whatever the GOP says is their unchanging views at that time.