As calls to “deprogram” Trump supporters mount, CNN has hosted a former Moonie-turned-professional deprogrammer who recommended the entire nation had been “negatively influenced” and wanted assist. Viewers weren’t keen to enroll.
Cult knowledgeable Steven Hassan was on Tuesday introduced on CNN to advise on easy methods to deprogram members of what he described in his 2019 ebook because the “Cult of Trump.” Maybe with a watch towards boosting his deprogramming enterprise, nevertheless, he recommended your entire nation was in want of his companies.
After CNN anchor Alisyn Camerota spoke of the Trump supporters who’d thronged the Capitol earlier this month as in the event that they have been not dwelling, dramatically intoning over footage of the raid that “a number of the folks that you just see right here have been as soon as elementary faculty counselors, a few of these folks have been firemen,” she requested Hassan how Trump had “radically modified their character.”
A former member of the notorious Unification Church (higher referred to as the ‘Moonies’) through the 1970s, Hassan recommended Trump devotees had been “deceptively recruited by an authoritarian political cult” and had undergone a “radical character change” psychologically diagnosable as “dissociative dysfunction.”
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Whereas he briefly described how cult leaders use management of habits, info, thought, and emotion to “create a brand new identification that’s dependent and obedient,” he stopped in need of explaining how Trump would have achieved this.
As Camerota bemoaned how lengthy Hassan’s one-on-one deprogramming method would take to brainwash (or re-brainwash) hundreds of thousands of Individuals, the cult counselor acknowledged “we’re going to wish a top-down method,” even suggesting he be invited to testify in entrance of Congress.
“The underside line is all of America wants deprogramming as a result of we’ve all been negatively influenced by Donald Trump,” he stated.
Trump supporters didn’t take kindly to being deemed cult members.
I’m a extremely educated grownup and I’ve by no means been a member of a cult, a lot much less some fictitious “Trump cult.” I resent anybody saying I’m not able to pondering for myself. I’ve voted each events in my life. I assist the insurance policies of the President, I don’t worship the person.
— Margaret 🇺🇸 🦅 (@MargaretAUGrad) January 19, 2021
I like my nation, no approach no how are they going to alter that. FU duma$ $ .
— Ccwill22 (@Ccwill221) January 19, 2021
Some identified that the accusations leveled at Trump supporters might simply as simply be lobbed again at their accusers – particularly the a part of Hassan’s guidelines by which the cult member is discouraged from looking for “outdoors” sources of knowledge and gaslighted with revised variations of the previous.
OMG! Do they actually suppose 80 million of us are that silly that we joined a cult? The vanity of the left astounds me. We predict for ourselves and cherished Trump as a result of he cherished us and gave us a voice. And by the way in which, the election was stolen. Simply watch the proof…lot of it. https://t.co/6ezgbd1DjW
— soberandfocused (@Soberandfocused) January 19, 2021
What are his ideas on individuals who nonetheless imagine in Russiagate?
— Pardon Julian Assange & Edward Snowden (@JohnFiliss) January 19, 2021
What you anticipate from the liberals, they took the play ebook from the Nazi's.
— Tony (@DeanDearinger) January 19, 2021
Although some appeared to take pleasure in embodying parts of the cult habits guidelines.
i’ll NEVER "recuperate" (learn programmed and brainwashed into their pondering) That is some scary scifi shit occurring there!
— Angel Patriot of Qanomoly (@AngelGrace1313) January 19, 2021
The liberals are evil. The patriots are good. That is about good vs evil. MSM = EVIL
— MountainMamaforTRuMP2020 (@MMp2020) January 19, 2021
It’s comprehensible that anybody would bristle at being advised they’ve been duped by a cult. However Hassan’s recommendation for folks seeking to deprogram their Trump-supporting family members sarcastically bore little resemblance to CNN’s normal derisive protection of a contingent that – regardless of the community’s greatest efforts – contains hundreds of thousands of Individuals. The skilled deprogrammer suggested his host that to encourage cultists to start out pondering for themselves, “probably the most highly effective method is asking a respectful, considerate query and being quiet and actually ready a very long time for a solution.”
The community is way from alone in suggesting Trump supporters want deprogramming. Washington Submit columnist Eugene Robinson appeared on MSNBC earlier this month with New York Occasions author Nikole Hannah-Jones to lament that there are “hundreds of thousands of Individuals, virtually all white, virtually all Republicans who in some way have to be deprogrammed…as if they’re members of a cult.” Democratic congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was extra circumspect together with her name to deprogram “white supremacists,” although many others in her get together have recommended the 2 classes are one and the identical.
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