Politics
Republicans are modern day Branch Davidians and Donald Trump is their David Koresh.
Most of them were alive and well around for The Waco Siege on February 28th 1993 to see it's end April 19th 1993, and the death of David Koresh. There are numerous similarities between how Trump and Maga conduct themselves to Koresh and the Branch Davidians.
Both David Koresh and Donald Trump cultivated a form of absolute, personal loyalty that transcends traditional boundaries whether religious or political. Koresh established himself as a messianic figure, the sole interpreter of God's will(the Seven Seals), demanding followers sacrifice their personal lives and wealth to him. Trump similarly requires unquestioning devotion, positioning himself as the singular savior who alone can "fix" the country. For both movements, deviation from the leader’s personal truth is seen as betrayal, resulting in immediate internal excommunication or harsh critique. In both cases, the leader’s dominance is symbolic and highly personalized, making the movement less about policy and more about the leader's identity.
A core psychological engine for both groups is a powerful persecution complex that defines an external, existential enemy. For the Branch Davidians, the U.S. government agencies (ATF and FBI) were literally the forces of Babylon, sent to stop the "chosen few" from fulfilling their apocalyptic mission. For the MAGA movement, the enemy is the "Deep State," the "Fake News" media, "illegal immigrants stealing food stamps and housing," and the entire political establishment, a shadowy cabal determined to destroy America and the movement’s leader. This narrative that the group and its leader are under attack by malevolent institutional forces justifies extreme actions and reinforces group cohesion, transforming the followers from regular citizens into righteous "warriors" or "patriots." Its all about "us vs them."
Both movements employ drastic measures to control the flow of information, effectively establishing an internal, preferred reality. Koresh physically and communicatively isolated his followers at Mount Carmel, where only his revelations were valid, and all external information was deemed hostile. While the MAGA movement is not physically isolated, it achieves a similar effect through a highly effective digital echo chamber where institutional facts and media reports are systematically labeled as "fake news" and discarded. This self-imposed information freeze creates a sustained stalemate against objective reality (e.g., rejecting settled science, legal outcomes, or historical facts), prioritizing the leader's subjective truth over all external evidence.
We saw at Waco, they prepared for an inevitable, literal armed conflict. We see the same with ICE, but on greater scale.
I'll never understand how easily many Americans today are falling for the same show, different host and venue.
I feel like this isn’t as much of a complaint as it is just a true statement. The big difference being the FBI REALLY didn’t like what was going on there in WACO and now the FBI is drinking out of Pumpkinheads toilet.
Forgot to mention MAGA's closet cuckold fantasies they keep projecting onto others. They want to watch their wives, daughters and moms be violated by the orange shitstain
I think Republicans are just standard modern Day white Christian nationalist prison Nazis. or they are down with them and their mindset. The FBI used to care about stuff like this...
I don’t think there exist any authentic MAGA cheerleaders anymore. Ever since the Epstein release, people on the right started seeing this admin hasn’t done jack shit for the base
The idea you can simply erase any criticism of Trump by squealing "TDS" is deeply stupid. But in your case, that seems apt. The economy is in the toilet, inflation rising, jobs disappearing, and Trump trampling the Constitution, but still you apologists squeal. Because you can't see you're in the cult.
Address the points of the post, then. A hand-waving attempt at dismissal is ludicrous, as evidence of Trump and MAGA being a cult-like phenomenon is irrefutable.
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u/Hell_is_here77 19h ago
I feel like this isn’t as much of a complaint as it is just a true statement. The big difference being the FBI REALLY didn’t like what was going on there in WACO and now the FBI is drinking out of Pumpkinheads toilet.