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Trumpism has evolved from a political ideology into a religion with an unerring tyrannical messiah at the center of it all. He is no longer a politician; he is a religious figure, and admitting it is the first step to understanding the cult-like devotion to Donald Trump.

I do not make this claim without acknowledging the fact that I, too, have made a god out of a mere mortal. Even before I knew or understood what religion or the Bible was, my mother was my first deity, and her words might as well have been written in red in a religious text.

Like Trump’s acolytes toward him, when it came to my mother, I believed that whatever came out of her mouth was the unadulterated truth. In the rare instances that I questioned her, she responded to my queries with the same reasoning offered by the president or a Baptist preacher forced to answer a biblical inconsistency:

Because she said so.

When someone points out that immigrants are less likely to commit a crime, that white men commit more acts of terrorism or that the economy is a product of Obama’s policies, Trump bypasses reason and doubles down on rhetoric. Even though net immigration has been negative for more than 10 years, Trump’s followers believe that kicking out Mexicans and Muslims will magically transform America into a utopian paradise in the same way that some Christians show up on Sundays to pay 10% of their income to an already wealthy pastor to buy a seat in the VIP section of the afterlife.

Trump’s fans dismiss anyone who questions as an unholy blasphemer using their carnal mind. Nothing has to make sense. He said it. That’s enough.

Thus sayeth Trump.

When talking about Trump’s disciples, we often imagine poor whites in the South and Appalachia who haven’t had anyone so blond and worthy of reverence since Rick Flair hung up his unitard.

But even learned men have converted to the cult of Trump, as his cabinet meetings have become eerily similar to the Last Supper or the final Kool-Aid brunch in Jonestown, Guyana, replete with seemingly intelligent people showering him with praise. He even opens every meeting with praise and worship devotional service:

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