I'm just going to say it: what we're watching is not a political movement. It's not a populist uprising. It's not conservatism. It's a personality cult. Full stop. And the sooner people stop being polite about calling it that, the sooner we can have an honest conversation about what the fuck comes next.
I've watched real conservative politics. I disagreed with a lot of it. But there were actual principles — limited government, fiscal discipline, strong institutions, rule of law. You could argue about execution. You could respect the framework even when you thought they got it wrong.
That's completely gone now.
What replaced it is a movement built entirely around one man's approval. Policies flip based on his mood. Principles evaporate the second they're inconvenient for him personally. Senators who spent decades building careers on specific beliefs fold overnight because the temperature in the room changed.
That's Not Politics. That's a Cult.
When the only logic holding your position together is "because he said so" — you're not in a political party anymore. You're in a cult. And I know that word pisses people off. Good. It should make you uncomfortable, because what it describes should be uncomfortable.
Cult behavior has specific, documented characteristics. Leader is infallible. Criticism from within is treated as betrayal. Reality is whatever the leader says it is today — and followers reshape their own memories to stay consistent with wherever he's moved since yesterday. Outside sources of information are the enemy.
Check every single one of those boxes. I'll wait.
Stop Reaching Across That Aisle
Half the country is in a functional cult and the other half keeps trying to "find common ground" like we're in a normal policy disagreement. We're not. This isn't a disagreement about tax rates or border policy. This is one side that has completely abandoned the concept of shared reality.
You don't reach across the aisle to a cult. You name what it is. You document what it does. And you stop pretending any of this is normal — because it isn't, and every time you treat it like it is, you make it easier for it to keep going.
That's what I'm here to do. And I'm done softening it.
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