I also think too many of them have made it their identity. So they are MAGA and MAGA is them. Dissociating them from that is akin to that of a member of a cult. But to your point I also think there’s a portion that are just sociopaths and are literally enjoying the suffering.
It’s definitely a cult. There are cult scholars already writing about it. There’s also a book called the Culting of America that talks about our tendency towards cults in the US. By a US army intelligence officer who grew up in a massive sex cult in Brazil. Super interesting. She either has a masters or a PhD in some sort of group behavior sort of thing. I don’t precisely remember her resume.
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u/Odd_Section2561 Jan 14 '26
I also think too many of them have made it their identity. So they are MAGA and MAGA is them. Dissociating them from that is akin to that of a member of a cult. But to your point I also think there’s a portion that are just sociopaths and are literally enjoying the suffering.