re: #46 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

The National Republican Senatorial Committee, nominally constituted to elect Republicans to the US Senate, sent out an E-mail fundraising blast which declared Donald Trump to be the greatest President the USA ever had.

Even Donald Trump hasn’t claimed that (he said Abraham Lincoln was the greatest).

Don’t call them a cult though, that’s not civil.

I guess Republican stalwarts such as Teddy Roosevelt, Dwight D. Eisenhower, and Ronald Reagan can all step aside.

Of course Trump has said he is more popular than Lincoln.

In 2018, Trump tweeted “Wow, highest Poll Numbers in the history of the Republican Party. That includes Honest Abe Lincoln and Ronald Reagan. There must be something wrong, please recheck that poll!”

He told the British Tabloid The Sun: ” “You know, a poll just came out that I am the most popular person in the history of the Republican Party. Beating Lincoln. I beat our Honest Abe.”

And he did say that he would beat a ticket of George Washington, President and Abe Lincoln, VP, by 40% (a strong pollster with tears in their eyes told him “Sir,…”). And that he has been treated more poorly than any other President, even Abe Lincoln (I guess getting assassinated just cannot compare to his travails).

It is a cult. And one of the hallmarks of a cult is that they cast out anyone who is an outlier. Independent thinking is suppressed. The leader keeps putting more and more extreme lines in the sand and then removing anyone who refuses to cross the line.