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“It’s often said that Donald Trump has a cultlike following. But that’s far too benign. The film Star Wars has a cultlike following. Taylor Swift has her cult of “Swifties.”
“A political organization that has no platform other than loyalty to the leader is not a cult, it’s an autocratic movement.
“As Hannah Arendt wrote in The Origins of Totalitarianism: ‘Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise.’
The totalitarian movements, each in its own way, have done their utmost to get rid of the party programs which specified concrete content and which they inherited from earlier, non-totalitarian stages of development.”
Both books are worth reading but if you read only one, pick The Conspiracy to End America because of what’s happening in our nation right now.
We need to understand this is not accidental and it’s not benign.