TRUMPOPHILIA: pathological cathexis of the 45th, twice impeached President of the U.S: worshiping the beast
#TRUMPOPHILIA: pathological cathexis of the 45th, twice impeached President of the U.S..
From NY Times https://www.nytimes.com/…/politics/cpac-trump-statue.html:.
At CPAC, a Golden Image, a Magic Wand and Reverence for Trump.The faithful who flocked to the annual conference of conservatives made it clear that their allegiance was to the former president far more than to the Republican Party.
The defiantly pro-Trump mood at CPAC represented a culmination of a cycle that began in 2016 when Republican leaders publicly supported Mr. Trump’s nomination for president while privately presuming a landslide defeat and subsequent irrelevance. It was a pattern that held firm over the four years that followed, with many lawmakers continuing to indulge the president, all while confident that a breaking point — whether a loss in 2020 or, most recently, the riot at the Capitol by Trump supporters on Jan. 6 — was imminent.
Meanwhile, their constituents’ devotion to Mr. Trump only hardened. For many voters, Mr. Trump became the party. And at CPAC, many of the thousands of attendees sporting Make America Great Again hats made it clear that their loyalties no longer lay with the institution itself.
Despite four years of professions of fealty to Mr. Trump from the party’s elected officials and their orienting of the G.O.P. around his image, dozens of conservatives this weekend bristled at the Republican label, castigated the party’s current congressional leadership and vowed to leave the party altogether should Mr. Trump decide not to run for a second term in 2024.
.#TRUMPOPHILIA: pathological cathexis of the 45th, twice impeached President of the U.S.
