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In reply to the discussion: So what happens when the cults leader loses? [View all]Binkie The Clown
(7,911 posts)14. Looking back in other cults,
such as people waiting on hill tops for the second coming, when things don't turn out the faithful usually just slip away quietly and then deny that they were ever followers to begin with.
It would be like looking for Nazis in post-war Germany. All those millions of faithful members of the Nazi party just mysteriously vanished into oblivion, and nobody would own up to ever having been a supporter.
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I am still convinced that Trump will file to run for president again in December
Claustrum
Oct 2020
#8
I doubt he will be alive in four years...and the GOP are going to be so pissed at him in the end too
Demsrule86
Oct 2020
#15
They will scurry back into the woodwork like cockroaches do when the lights are turned on
Walleye
Oct 2020
#12
I believe there will be some violence, some arrests, some deaths, but nothing massive
lettucebe
Oct 2020
#26
I've got a neighbor with Trump signs in his yard. He carries his gun everywhere. Yet...
Midnight Writer
Oct 2020
#39