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Despite Donald Trump's erratic behaviour, his fan base has formed a loyalty ‘cult’ around him. Yet Elizaveta Gaufman and Adrian Favero explain how it is precisely his transgressive behaviour that is feeding Trump's charismatic authority. And this cult-like devotion of Trump loyalists, they argue, is reminiscent of darker times in US history

The kind and number of Trump’s administrative gaffes, his incessant daily lies, his boorish behavior, his total and complete doing the exact opposite of what he said he would do to restore the lives of all those disaffected voters in those four states...

Cults have always been a source of fascination. Groups like NXIVM, children of God, the Manson Family, David Koresh’s Branch Davidians, Heaven’s Gate, and Jim Jones’ Peoples Temple have spawned dozens of books, films, and cult documentaries. A recent Netflix docuseries called Dancing for the Devil: The 7M TikTok Cult has brought this form of

Millions of Americans are blindly devoted to their Dear Leader. What will it take for them to snap out of it?

This seems to be a growing phenomenon. Maybe it’s an extreme emotional reaction to the election results, but this seems to be happening all over the nation. �Many people are breaking their ties ...

President Trump on Wednesday ripped the coalition of Republicans who oppose his presidency as “human scum!” “The Never Trumper Republicans, though on respirators with not many left,...

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Many of us experience this in toxic communications we have with others in our life, but we don’t quite have the right word or definition to describe it.

"People Power" is a political term denoting the populist driving force of any social movement which invokes the authority of grassroots opinion and willpower, usually in opposition to that of conventionally organised corporate or political forces. People power protest attempts to make changes in the political process of a given state - it refers to “revolutions driven by civil society mobilisation” which result in a reconfiguration of political power in a given state. As denoted by the name, this method is reliant on popular participation “civilian-based” and therefore does not include isolated acts or protest without an overarching organisation by a group of people. People power can be manifested as a small-scale protest or campaign for neighborhood change; or as wide-ranging, revolutionary action involving national street demonstrations, work stoppages and general strikes intending to overthrow an existing government and/or political system. With regards to tactics employed by People Power movements, both nonviolence and violence have been used throughout history: as was the case in the non-violent 1986 People Power Revolution which overthrew the Marcos régime, or the violent uprising in Libya in 2011.

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An excerpt on cults and where Trump/MAGA fits into the definition.From the full course: "The Impact of Donald Trump on America: A Cultic Studies Perspective,...

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Many of us experience this in toxic communications we have with others in our life, but we don’t quite have the right word or definition to describe it.

Accusing you of their own behavior is a classic gaslighter's tactic.

Today the topic I have for you is Projection — The Narcissists’ Weapon that Can Be Used Against Them.

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