The Trump Cult is built on paranoia, resentment and fear
Fear is a powerful emotion. It can move mountains and almost overturn elections.
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Fear is a powerful emotion.
I frankly feel sorry for MAGA Trump supporters because they are trapped in a maelstrom of fear and paranoia. They believe the “country is being destroyed.” They believe that elections don’t matter any more, and can be easily stolen right in front of their very eyes. They believe that the Deep State and Barack Obama are secretly running the nation.
Imagine how terrifying that must be? You can’t trust anything anyone tells you. You can’t trust the media, you can’t trust Hollywood, you can’t trust anyone. Every thing is a lie. Everyone is biased. Everybody is out to get you, out to take money and jobs from you. The government is corrupt. The FBI is corrupt. The courts are corrupt.
Satan is at the door. The Communists are coming. The Marxists are under the carpet. People are indoctrinating children into believing they can magically switch their sex. They trafficking children, raping them to drive them to a state of tightening fear the harvesting their adrenochrome. Hillary Clinton and the Globalists (Jews) are behind it all. Won’t someone please Save the Children?!
Migrants are climbing over the walls at the open border. They coming here to steal from us, to take our jobs, to take our votes. To kill us in our sleep.
That has to be a terrible place to live. It has to be panic-inducing. It would drive you to you’re wits end. You would probably do just about anything to change it, anything to make it all stop.
Fear can drive you to do things you never thought that you could.
And panicked and filled with fear is exactly where some people want you. Especially Trump.
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