The Rise of Trumpism
(1) Sensory organs evolved over billions of years to provide animals mechanisms to detect and interact with their natural environments in order to survive.
(2) Theistic religions disengage human sensory input from knowledge of the universe/environment. Believing does not require seeing; invisible god(s) are real.
(3) Right wing media feeds the cognitive dissonance opened by religion (Christian Right) an unending stream of logical fallacies about American culture and politics. This completely hobbles the critical thinking ability of their audience and makes them ever more receptive to, as the Bible would say, false idols.
(4) Enter Donald J. Trump, who spent a lifetime gilding his own image with gold colored dust, onto the pedastal built by right wing media to elevate idols to the level of God.
Trumpism isn’t politics or ideology; it’s idolatry, a cult. The cure will involve mass cult recovery.
Only the most gullible among us, who believe in the existence of all powerful beings in the universe can disengage reality from rhetoric to actually believe the response of Sarah Huckabee Sanders in this exchange:
[A reporter asked Sarah Huckabee Sanders, POTUS DJT's spokesperson,] "Clearly there is a concern from some Republicans that the president is not always being as truthful as he could be," Hallie Jackson continued. "How does he plan to address that?"
[She answers,] "I think by being truthful and transparent as he has every single day."
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