Molly Jong-Fast at Daily Beast in an opinion piece, yesterday.
Seriously, literally, this is a cult.
Donald Trump, who regrets not ordering the White House flag to be flown at half-staff to mourn Ashli Babbitt, the rioter and Qanon believer killed while storming the U.S. Capitol, is determined to create a narrative that his idiot insurrectionists are in fact part of an army of holy MAGA warriors.
āI would venture to say it was the largest crowd I had ever spoken beforeā¦ It was a loving crowd too, by the way. Many, many people have told me that was a loving crowd. It was too bad, it was too bad that they did thatā Trump said in one of his post-presidency interviews from Mar-a-Lago. He didnāt mention the violence, but insisted that, āIn all fairness, the Capitol Police were ushering people inā¦ They were hugging and kissing. You donāt see that. Thereās plenty of tape of that.ā
You donāt see that tape because that didnāt happen, but thatās the point of this cult: Never mind your lying eyes, have faith in your Dear Orange Leader.
āPersonally, what I wanted is what they wanted,ā he concluded, meaning to overturn the results of the election because heād said there was fraud and never mind all of the judges appointed by Republicans and Republican state and election officials who said there was no evidence of any of that. Heretics. The GOP is dead, and thereās only the MAGA movement now, as the partyās āleadersā sojourn to his sacred golf clubs to confess their sins.
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