Before the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago, I would often see Trump’s horde (mostly white conservative males, but some women too) complaining about being labeled a “cult.” And then usually they might make horrific false equivalency like “Well, how come Biden voters aren’t called a ‘cult’ but Trump voters are called one?” Republicans are used to making phony “both sides” arguments, but that might be one of the worst examples I’ve ever seen.
And I’ll now tell you why…
First, the left has never supported Joe Biden in the same ballpark (or universe) as the way Trump’s horde supports him. During the primary, you could see endless bitching that Biden was “too old,” or “too centrist,” or “not exciting enough.” The second he took office, many liberals acted like he was a dismal failure for not fixing every mistake Trump made in six months, and then not giving them universal basic income. Biden inherited one of the worst situations any President ever has (the first incumbent POTUS in U.S. history to attempt a coup, an opposition party that refuses to admit he even won the election, the 21st century equivalent of the Spanish flu, an economy collapsing from a year of shutdowns, and the early rumblings of WWII from Russia and China), and AOC was attacking him for not prioritizing student loan debt…
“Biden just made Kamala Harris the first female VP!” “Who cares?” “…Well, he just passed the 3rd stimulus with no Republican support.” “—And where’s the 4th one?” “He put Ketanji Brown Jackson on the Supreme Court!” “—He didn’t remove Clarence Thomas though.” “…Well, he can’t single-handedly do that, but at least there’s an infrastructure bill—” “—And where’s the Voting Rights Act bill, the climate bill, the Build Back Better, and universal pre-K?” “Biden has fought for all that stuff but Joe Manchin has blocked all of it…” “And why hasn’t Biden cloned a more cooperative version of him yet? Same old tired centrist Democrat…”
Trump’s cult is called a cult because they are a cult.
—He has staged America’s first coup attempt by a sitting President, and he didn’t lose their support.
—He got hundreds of his followers arrested for inspiring them to try to decapitate congress, and there were still dumbasses ready and willing to attend his rallies.
—He ripped them off for 250 million dollars to “stop the steal” (63 election lawsuits that were laughed out of court and he never even paid Guiliani), and they’re talking about how they can’t wait to vote for him again. [We know for a fact he never really believed those lawsuits because he hired an incompetent lawyer nobody had ever heard of to represent him, and stiffed Guiliani on legal fees. To represent him against the Justice Department, he just hired the “billion dollar lawyer” from Atlanta who is taken seriously.]
Trump is the first POTUS in American history to be impeached twice (and for totally unrelated crimes), and received votes from his own party both times (a U.S. first).
He is the one man we know is objectively unfit for America’s highest office, and I have not seen hardly anyone who voted for him acknowledge they made a mistake. All these people that pretended to be so worried about Antifa barely batted an eyelash at a horde of thousands storming the Capitol to decapitate congress. “Trump tried to kill his own VP because he wouldn’t help him steal an election—” “Well, Hunter Biden’s laptop…” This is Jim Jones-territory. Trump literally got Beverly Hills salon owners to travel across the country to “drink the Kool-Aid” and ruin themselves committing a felony.
And so, it could only be expected that his cult would be against the FBI for doing their jobs. The January 6th commission has spent the Summer definitively proving that Trump is a criminal. Therefore, it really shouldn’t be a surprise that law enforcement has finally caught up with a man whose university was disbanded for fraud, charity disbanded for fraud, was sued more than 1,000 times for screwing people over, whose personal attorney went to jail on his behalf, who had three separate campaign managers jailed for different crimes, who clearly committed treason in league with Russia, and who has almost certainly destroyed documents relevant to his failed coup attempt that got people killed.
The only people it is a surprise to is his cult.