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Mr.Bee

(1,916 posts)
Tue May 6, 2025, 09:36 AM May 2025

Trump is not the cult

I think what Naomi Klein revealed is Trump is a tool of the far right extremists, the Christian nationalists, the end days survivalists, and the white supremacists.
He is living in a '50s fantasy where he is a Joe McCarthy gettin' the bad guys, while the real cult is using him as their puppet.

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Mr.Bee

(1,916 posts)
3. Alcatraz To Be Re-Opened Indeed
Tue May 6, 2025, 09:50 AM
May 2025

Anyone who hasn't seen the Naomi Klein interview should check it out. Answers a lot of questions.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220293260
Yes, Dementia Don is being used.

SharonAnn

(14,178 posts)
4. Correct. It's the Heritage Foundation/Federalist cabal. The white supremacists, Christian nationalists, etc
Tue May 6, 2025, 10:01 AM
May 2025

Basically, it’s the Robber Barons who vacuumed up all these sects to support the Robber Barons.

republianmushroom

(22,692 posts)
7. The convicted felon is to dumb to do all of this by his little lonesome.
Tue May 6, 2025, 12:27 PM
May 2025

He would have problems pouring piss out of a boot with the instruction written on the heel.
He is having plenty of help.

Initech

(109,262 posts)
8. Yup. The real problem is Steve Bannon, Stephen Miller, Alex Jones, Tucker Carlson, Elon Musk, and Sean Hannity.
Tue May 6, 2025, 12:30 PM
May 2025

Remember, the propagandists were the architects of Nazi Germany and they were arrested and arraigned in the Nuremberg trials. We need to do the same.

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