“If Trump was putting his name behind it, it must be a legitimate investment,” one woman told the news organization.
“This is a woman who spoke to Reuters,” Bash said. “She put $2,000 of her savings into the $TRUMP meme at the end of May. Her $TRUMP holding was worth less than $120, she now thinks it was just a pump-and-dump scheme. The second investor, Matt, a 45-year-old machinist in Indiana, put $40,000 into $TRUMP family tokens … Matt’s shares have dropped 79% in value since he bought them for a loss of about $32,700. He does not blame the Trump family.”
These people are in a cult.
How do you deprogram millions of people? Seriously, it’s hard for cult members to re-integrate back into society without support.
I worry about what happens when their 80-year-old leader dies (to be clear, that’s an inevitability, not a specific wish) and they leave the Republican party but have nowhere to turn for community.
Why not? I’m actively rooting for it.
Just to be extra clear, for me, it is, in fact, a specific wish.
Education. Why do you think fascists hate it
they will latch-on to whoever spews the same lies and hate the loudest.
It’s been a cult for long before Trump came along, it was a cult looking for a leader. I googled “how to break people free from a cult” back in 2011. What i got out of it was you have to let people figure it out themselves. Confronting them makes them dig in deeper. Best thing to do is not make them fear an “I told you so” moment. We all have our pride
They’re not going to leave the Republican party. They don’t have specific beliefs or values diving their political expression. They embraced what it meant to be a Republican before Trump just as they embrace it now, even though those are two disparate worldviews. They will do the same after he is gone with whatever the GOP says is their unchanging views at that time.
I think they’re just stupid and rely on being told what to do rather than figuring out what to do. Trump wouldn’t be the only thing in their lives taking full advantage of that.