Rightwing populists weaponise culture as a way to protect privilege....

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12. It's a cult. They accept that their leader is special, so special rules apply to him.

This is a group that already accepts an all-powerful deity, authoritarianism. It's a small jump to worship this pig who eats at the trough of divisiveness, meanness, violence, lies, and greed. It's not like his followers don't know this about him. I've heard repeatedly that they know he lies, is mean, is greedy, etc. But they accept that.

You can't appeal to the logic in a cult member. Cultism isn't logical, to begin with. I guess you can only replace one cult leader with another, or employ deprogramming.