Trump Davidians

[Kid Berwyn]

A cult to reestablish the Old South, the ones who assassinated Abraham Lincoln.

Steve Bannon, per Jonathan Karl

WHAT THE 2024 ELECTION IS REALLY ABOUT FOR TRUMP SUPPORTERS

He promised them: “I am your retribution.”

By Jonathan D. Karl
The Atlantic, November 2, 2023

Excerpt…

Waco became a rallying cry for right‐wing activists who believed that Washington, D.C., was out to get them. “Citizens’ militias” stockpiled arms and ammunition as well as food and survival gear. Some played weekend war games in vacant parking lots, on farmland, or in remote woodlands. “The ranks of the militias are made up of factory workers, veterans, computer programmers, farmers, housewives, small‐business owners,” I wrote in the book’s introduction. “The most shocking thing about these ‘paramilitary extremists’ is how normal they are. They are your neighbors. But in another sense, many members of America’s new militias live in a parallel universe, where civil war is already being waged by tyrants within the federal government.”

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“[Trump’s] making a statement, I believe, by coming to these stomping grounds where the government, the FBI, laid siege on this community just like they laid siege on Mar‐a‐Lago and went in and took his stuff,” Charles Pace, a Branch Davidian pastor who knew Koresh but left the compound several years before the deadly fire, told The Texas Tribune. “He’s not coming right out and saying, ‘Well, I’m doing it because I want you to know what happened there was wrong.’ But he implies it.”

Shortly after the rally was announced, I asked Steve Bannon, who had served as the CEO of Trump’s 2016 campaign and had once again emerged as one of Trump’s most important advisers, why the former president would go to Waco for his big campaign reboot. He wasn’t coy.

“We’re the Trump Davidians,” he told me with a laugh.

Continues…

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/11/what-2024-election-really-about-trump-supporters/675869/

[EarnestPutz]

1. We've always said that the MAGA crowd has "drunk the Kool-Aid" figuratively and hoped that they would do so literally.

[Kid Berwyn]

2. Karl was on Deadline Washington...

The guy made clear the cults of Trump and the Confederacy match up ideologically and historically through their white supremacist crapola, but Karl failed to make the real connection to Bannon’s chums in the fascist internationale. Sad.

[usonian]

3. "The Man Who Would Be King"

As more and more of his stooges head off to prison, the man who would be king continues to bamboozle the cult, until some day, who knows how long it will take?, more and more of them will figure that they’ve been royally had.

Sad, and many of them will have to “hit rock bottom” before it even occurs to them that he’s tailgating their hate rather than leading a great cause.

He’s a spoiled rich brat pussycat who couldn’t beat a 5 year old, certainly not outrun one!

Saying attributed to Confucius: “Great wind comes from empty cave”

[Kid Berwyn]

4. Kipling saw the naked bastards for what they were.

Lodge brothers. And when the People of Dravotstan saw Danny bleed like a man, there was hell to pay.

Bannon’s Fourth Reich runs through Alexandria and bends off to Richmond. Hope these new-traitors get ALL what they deserve.

[tanyev]

5. Bannon knows that didn't end well for them, right?

[Bundbuster]

6. Related thread on Jim Jones & tfg

The Slobfather IS Jim Jones

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100218420944