(08-27-2023, 01:32 PM)mikesez Wrote:

(08-27-2023, 12:32 PM)homebiscuit Wrote: Trump personifies what the right believes is a forceful pushback against the institutional rot in DC and the MSM. I guess you could call it a cult of personality because he's the only person, and a complete outsider, who said the things that career politicians won't. Love him or hate him, he's very unique in the history of the American political landscape.

[BLEEP].
Many on the right are angry.  Trump is angry.  It doesn't go deeper than that.  We know this because whenever we get Trump supporters together and ask what he's going to do to fix the things they're angry about, they sharply disagree with each other.  We know this because Trump never articulated much of an agenda beyond the bare bones of what Republicans had tried to pass for years, and he got most of what he wanted, but his supporters are still angry and still feeling like they didn't get what they wanted.
And yes when people hold him up as this instrument of righteous divine judgement and unifyer of that which can't be unified, yes that is a cult of personality.