The Republican Party Has Become a Cult

10/01/2026

Renee Nicole Good sat idling in her car Wednesday, observing an ongoing ICE operation. The 37-year-old then attempted to drive away, reportedly at the instruction of one federal agent on scene. In response, another ICE officer shot her to death.

Her final moments were recorded by multiple bystanders. And the footage shows that her tires were pointing away from the agent who shot her — and that her vehicle did not run over any part of his body. By all appearances, she posed no significant physical threat to the officer, let alone a mortal one. MILLIONS of Americans have seen the video footage of her being murdered. She was shot multiple times by a masked ICE agent who has since been identified as Jonathan E. Ross. Ross remained on his feet after shooting her. He then walked away, apparently uninjured as Good’s car crashed into a lamppost and parked vehicle.

Even though MILLIONS of Americans have seen the videos of Ross murdering a frightened women who wasn’t threatening anyone, Trump and other Republican leaders are alleging that Good was “violent” and a “domestic terrorist” who ran over the ICE Officer, dragged him for several blocks, and injuring him severely enough that he had to be taken to a local hospital for emergency medical treatment..

Trump is quoted as saying, “it is hard to believe he is alive, but is now recovering in the hospital.”

Millions of Americans have seen one or more videos of this horrific incident. The Republican talking points are not even remotely supported by the available evidence. Anyone who has watched a video of Good’s death knows that her killer was still standing after she perished. The footage shows him re-holstering his gun and, eventually, driving away unharmed.

This is what I mean when I say the Republican Party has become a cult. Trump, Vance, Noem and other Republican leaders expect us to ignore the evidence that we’ve seen with our own eyes. Trump, Noem and other cult leaders show utter contempt for the truth and expect their cult followers to accept the lies without question. In a cult, the truth doesn't matter. All that matters is blind fealty and obedience to the cult leaders.

03/01/2026

In 1939, Hi**er launched a violent military invasion against Poland. He falsely claimed that Poland had attacked German territory. It was a flimsy pretext. There was no factual evidence to support Hi**er’s claims.

In 2026, Trump launched a violent military invasion against Venezuela. Trump has falsely claimed that Venezuela was engaged in narcotics smuggling and narcoterrorism. It is a flimsy pretext for invasion and Trump has no credible evidence to support his claims.

28/12/2025

MAGA is a personality cult, and their belief system is victimhood.

Everything is an enemy; immigrants, gay people, transgender people, Democrats, Antifa, "brown people", the media, refugees, feminists. Some dark, nefarious force is always out to get them.

Nothing is ever their fault. If their life isn't working, it's because someone else is stealing, replacing, or rigging it. Fear fills the gaps where understanding should be. And grievance becomes the glue that holds the whole thing together.

18/10/2025

During the Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld regime, the Republican party shrank. People with deductive reasoning skills were disgusted by the propaganda and the lies. Many Republicans walked out and became Democrats or independents. But the people who remained in the Republican Party became more extremist. This is around about the time that I started calling the Republican party a cult.

I thought that the evidence of cult-like behavior was quite clear. Back then, Republicans were rejecting the evidence that they could see with their own two eyes, and instead they fervently embracing the words of their dear, infallible leaders.

Here’s an example of the sort of irrational, cult-like behavior I’m talking about. Back in 2002, Saddam Hussein allowed United Nations weapons inspectors into Iraq to search for any signs of nuclear weapons, chemical weapons, long-range missiles, or anything else that the Iraqi regime was forbidden to have.

Bush complained endlessly about the U.N. weapons inspectors. He referred to their inspections as a game of “hide-and-seek” and strongly hinted that the inspectors should be arresting Iraqi scientists and torturing them to force them to give up all their secrets about weapons of mass destruction.

That was in 2002, and millions of Republicans all seemed to agree with Bush’s assessments of the U.N. weapons inspectors. They mercilessly ridiculed the U.N. inspectors, and peppered Hans Blix with endless insults for not finding the ostensible weapons of mass destruction.

Then in 2003, George W. Bush claimed that he was FORCED to invade Iraq because Saddam Hussein refused to allow the U.N. weapons inspectors into Iraq. Thus, Bush and Cheney had NO CHOICE, but to invade to protect America’s national security.

Republicans had absolutely no problem agreeing with Bush when he said this.

For four months, Bush’s followers in the Republican Party had no problem insulting and ridiculing the work that the U.N. weapons inspectors were doing in Iraq. Then, in 2003, Bush claimed that the U.N. weapons inspectors WERE NEVER IN IRAQ, and Bush’s supporters had no problem agreeing with that either.

Even when Bush’s lies directly contradicted what he had said a few months earlier, his supporters had no trouble immediately accepting this lie. This is EXACTLY the sort of thing that goes on in religious cults! It doesn’t matter how nonsensical and obvious the lie; it will STILL BE BELIEVED if it comes from a high-ranking leader of the cult.

The bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld invasion of Iraq had nothing to do with national security or weapons of mass destruction. It had to do with power, corporate, greed, racism, and blind obedience.

The blind obedience part is very important. If you’re going to build a cult, you can’t have people with deductive reasoning skills hanging around, pointing out the flaws in your logic.

The Republican Party has been pushing for an authoritarian system of government for a long time. But it’s difficult to get support for an authoritarian dictatorship type of government from people who were born in a democracy. It takes time to push people into thinking that authoritarianism is good and democracy is bad. So, they pushed all the intellectuals out of the Republican Party and fed them a steady diet of racist, misogynistic and xenophobic propaganda. They made it sound like g**s, le****ns, feminists and dark-skinned immigrants were all evil boogeyman who were out to get them. And anyone who used words like “human rights” or “civil rights” or “social justice” were all part of the problem.

Ordinary people with deductive reasoning, skills would never have fallen for such propaganda. But by the time the Bush/Cheney regime had ended, most of the intellectuals had been driven out of the Republican party, and most of the people who remained had a cult mindset.

These people had no use for deductive reasoning skills.

It's gotten so bad that despite the inflation we’ve had under Trump, when Trump says that the price of groceries has gone down, none of the lower ranking members of the Republican party seem to notice that he’s lying. These are people who go to the grocery store, pay more for milk, coffee, pork chops, produce, cereal and other goods, but when Trump says that inflation has been defeated and the price of groceries has gone way down, they never contradict him. It’s like they’re incapable of seeing that they’re being lied to.

It's gotten so bad that the leaders of the Republicans cult can say that opposing fascism is bad, opposing monarchy is bad, and that if you attend a “No Kings” rally that you’re some sort of terrorist, and that you “hate America”, none of the lower ranking members of the Republican cult question the logic of this insane rhetoric.

11/09/2025

Gun violence and political violence in this country is a tragedy. Not just because we have become so numb to it, seeing it as commonplace at this point, but because it is a choice by our leaders, a policy choice, a policy failure to see the epidemic of gun violence plague our nation.

And it is because Donald Trump and the Republican Party views politics as theatre. They do not care about your life. And they make that very clear with the people that they put in charge, the people that they now have running our country.

And it is that plan that Donald Trump has put into place that has been exposed, and has backfired on him, after Charlie Kirk’s death.

The Republicans are trying to blame Charlie Kirk’s death on the Democratic Party. This is quite bizarre and hypocritical after the Republicans have spent years, not only refusing to act in any meaningful way on the epidemic of gun violence in this country, but have purposely incited violence against Joseph Biden, Nancy Pelosi, Hillary Clinton, Gabrielle Giffords, George Tiller, George Soros, Planned Parenthood, Blacks, Jews, Sikhs, Latino Immigrants, Syrian refugees, Muslims, Central America asylum seekers, transgender Americans.

Republicans have encouraged and empowered an army of armed, dangerous hooligans on American soil who feel entitled to terrorize and kill those who are different than them. And now that one of those armed, dangerous hooligans has killed one of their own, they want to wash their hands of them and refuse to take any responsibility for what happened.

Party of personal responsibility?

No.

More like party of refusing to take responsibility for their actions.

18/05/2025

Donald Trump very clearly has dementia.

I don’t see how anyone could have any doubts at this point. During his recent visit to the Middle East, he sounded like a demented, senile, elderly man that somehow wandered away from the nursing home.

Here is what happened, when Trump was sitting and talking with leaders from the United Arab Emirates and he went into a rambling, nonsensical tangent about the word “groceries”.

Trump seemed to think that this was a very obscure word that hadn’t been used by anyone in the United States in decades. He claimed that it was an “old term” and an “old fashioned term” that it means “basically what you’re buying food”.

I don’t know when in Donald’s life he first heard the term “groceries”, but it’s not a term that people don’t use. It’s a common word used in people’s vocabulary pretty much every day. People understand this word. Even small children understand this word.

But not Trump. Trump thinks that the word is highly unusual and obscure. He’s repeatedly spoken of how this word is old fashioned and unknown to most Americans. Even more strangely, at one point, Trump claimed that it was a word that he coined.

He was all like, “I started using this term groceries, and now everyone is using it.”

He is obsessed with that word, and it makes me think is it even possible that he went most of his life without hearing it?

Groceries is not a colloquial term. It’s not something that is relegated to a certain class of people or a certain geographic region. Wealthy people call them groceries. Poor people call them groceries. Working class people call them groceries. People in the South call them groceries. People in the North call them groceries. So, why is he obsessed with this word? Why does he think he just now discovered it?

Unless of course, he is suffering from Alzheimer’s or some similar sort of debilitating medical condition that impairs cognitive abilities.

He forgets that he’s heard the term “groceries” and then suddenly one day he hears the word and suddenly it’s brand new to him.

The same thing with the word “equalize”. Trump claimed that he created that word as well. It's a quite common word. It’s been around for centuries, but Trump claims that it’s brand new and that he just created it.

If Trump has serious mental impairments that cause him to forget things, things like words that he’s heard his entire life, we could see how he thinks that he created words like “groceries” and “equalize” because he thinks he’s never heard them before.

Alzheimer’s can do that to you. So, there’s one possible explanation for why he thinks that commonly used words were just discovered or created by him.

18/03/2025

16/03/2025

Back in 2016, Hillary Clinton claimed that half of Trump’s supporters were a basket of deplorables.

Trump had already proven himself to be a horrible, untrustworthy, petty, corrupt, and dishonest person back in 2016, but it’s so much worse now. Those who still support Trump today, support a man that is infamous for the following things:

He refused to take the Covid pandemic seriously, ignored scientific advice and his criminally irresponsible behavior ended up getting hundreds of thousands of Americans killed.

He separated children from their families. And then he locked the children in cages.

He tear-gassed peaceful protesters on Lafayette Square so he could hold a photo op holding a Bible in front of a church,

He had the worst jobs record of any president in modern history,

He fired the FBI director for investigating his ties to Russia.

He bragged about firing the FBI director on TV.

He took Vladimir Putin’s word over the US intelligence community,

He increased the national debt by nearly $8 trillion,

He had three of the highest annual trade deficits in U.S. history.

He called veterans and soldiers who died in combat losers and suckers!

He coddled the leader of Saudi Arabia after he ordered the ex*****on and dismembering of a US-based journalist,

He refused to concede the 2020 election, and indeed STILL refuses to admit that he lost in 2020!

He suggested that people should inject bleach into their bodies to fight COVID,

He withdrew all American troops from Syria and abandoned our allies the Kurdish allies, and allowing ISIS to regroup and gain power in Syria once more.

He repeatedly called the media “enemies of the people,”

He told Bob Woodward in private that the coronavirus was a big deal but then downplayed it in public.

He praised dictators and authoritarians around the world while criticizing our allies.

He mocked wearing face masks to guard against transmitting COVID.

He hired and associated with numerous shady figures that were eventually convicted of federal offenses including his campaign manager and national security adviser. And then he PARDONED several of his shady associates!

He spent more time golfing than any other president in history and he charged the Secret Service jacked-up rates at his properties while they were there protecting him!

He got into a losing tariff war with China that forced US taxpayers to bail out farmers, AND THEN he had the nerve to claim that his losing tariff war was a win for the US!

He illegally pressured the governor and secretary of state of Georgia to “find” him votes.

He allowed White House staff to use personal email accounts for official businesses after blasting Hillary Clinton for doing the same thing,

He rolled back regulations that stopped coal companies from dumping waste into rivers,

He attacked Dr. Anthony Fauci.

He allowed political hacks to overrule government scientists on major reports on climate change and other issues.

He held private meetings with Vladimir Putin without staff present, AND he didn’t disclose his private meetings with Vladimir Putin so that the US had to find out via Russian media!

And he suggested that the government should nuke hurricanes.

And AFTER ALL THAT, Trump still has supporters!

They are WORSE THAN DEPLORABLE! They’re basically betraying America! They’re abandoning America, much the same way that Trump abandoned our Kurdish allies!!!

15/03/2025

While speaking at the Justice Department on Friday President Donald Trump made some outlandish comments about the news media, claiming that CNN and MSNBC are arms of the Democratic Party and said that what they are doing is somehow illegal.

"And I believe that CNN and MSDNC, who literally write 97.6% bad about me are political arms of the Democrat Party and in my opinion, they're really corrupt and they're illegal, what they do is illegal," Trump said.

This is not the first time rump has publicly levied attacks against the free press. Prior to the election, Trump filed a lawsuit against CBS, claiming that a 60 Minutes interview with then Democratic Presidential Nominee Kamala Harris was edited in a way to give her an advantage.