Hey, Obama Haters--Trump Love Is What a Cult Looks Like!
No American political party has ever descended into authoritarianism. The Republican Party now undeniably is somewhere along that road. How low can it go?
MICHAEL TOMASKY
06.14.18 5:03 PM ET
Remember the “cult of Obama”? Of course you do. They carried on about it nonstop.
Jerome Corsi, the “investigative reporter” whose current fan-fiction obsession is the CIA’s “plot” to assassinate Donald Trump, wrote a book called Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality (get the joke in the title? Say it fast a couple times). This came out in 2008, before Barack Obama was even in possession of the full power and majesty of the presidency to brainwash the defenseless masses.
Corsi would have many followers and imitators over the next eight years proclaiming that the relationship between Obama and his followers was not merely that of politician and admirers but of Dear Leader and sycophantic cult members. The argument was a stool with three legs.
The first was the presumption that Obama was an intellectual lightweight—that no rational person could possibly be drawn to him for reasons of substance, so it had to be because of bread and circuses (in his case, because he was so “clean and articulate,” as someone once said, and talked so pretty).
The second leg was the argument that Obama was given to a kind of authoritarian leadership style that required total faith in and subservience to him—this was coded within the attacks on him as un-American, that he did not accept our norms and customs and institutions.
more
https://www.thedailybeast.com/hey-obama-haterstrump-love-is-what-a-cult-looks-like?ref=home
