Right. The cult takes him very seriously.
I didn't realize until last night that Trump himself started justifying his desertion of the Kurds with this new "they're no angels" justification. If you look at the timelines, it seems the board's most committed cult members instantly started repeating it here - I believe Trump said verbatim: "they're no angels", and within maybe an hour or two, one of the board Trumpies responded to me with that exact line. These are generally bright people IMO, and they hear something from Trump, and just repeat it like mechanized amplifiers.
It's almost a little eerie. It's how demagogues become tyrants. Which is not to say I expect that to happen, but I it is unnerving to see so many Americans exhibiting that kind of cult-like devotion to a personality.
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