People are noticing something VERY OFF at Trump rallies

Have you ever noticed that when Donald Trump gives these speeches at rallies to MAGA, something is weird about the audience, especially the people that you see behind Donald Trump.Now, I know you might be saying it's all weird, like the whole wanting to be there is weird at all.And you're right.But I want to dig into something else about what happens at these rallies when Donald Trump speaks to what are really his most loyal followers.And I know some of you have noticed it because you've written to me about it.Trump rallies are more like what are known as cult reinforcement rituals.

And to explain what I mean, I'm going to strip out a whole bunch of stuff that the rallies are not.The rally is not a policy event where the main purpose is to convince people that Trump's policy ideas are really good.They are also not speeches about Trump's fundamental political philosophy, libertarianism versus authoritarianism.And in the in their primary sense, that's not what these events are about.The average Trump rally is primarily a form of emotional immersion.And the content is essentially irrelevant.

Now, I say essentially because it's not completely irrelevant and still serves serves an instrumental purpose.But what I mean by that is whether Trump talks about putting people in jail and locking them up or about trans sports or beat up the protesters, treat them a little rough or about Obama being bad.The content doesn't really make a difference to the average Trump supporter.Trump can sort of skip and jump between sharks and water pressure and toilets and that sort of stuff.And it's all just kind of there for the crowd.They're not there for the information is the point that I'm making.

They're therein a cult ritual to reinforce their identity.When you look at how cults and what we might call high control groups operate psychologically, this is a really big part of it.Sophistication of arguments is kind of pointless.You're just wasting effort.If you're trying to deliver a sophisticated argument, what you need to deliver is repetition.

And Trump does that.And you ideally would do it.in a setting isolated from outside criticism with enemies to scapegoat to get everybody synchronized emotionally.Now, then you look at how the Trump rally is structured.The crowds wait for hours together, often longer than they even expect, because Trump is hours late that this is how little Trump respects his followers.He will often be hours late to his own rallies.

And even if he's not late, people show up early.They often stand out there in direct sun.The horrible porta potties, the horrible food, music blasting, crappy merchandise, much of it made in China for sale everywhere.Sometimes people will start chanting.Sometimes they'll do the Pledge of Allegiance apropos of nothing.And if you're an outsider or a protester or a nonbeliever in the movement or just a member of the media asking questions of people, you're mocked, you're intimidated.

Sometimes you're even sort of like pushed out of the place.And the dear leader, who will eventually arrive on his own plane, often very late, making everybody wait, is presented as the solution to all of your problems.This is a cult.It's not politics in a strict traditional sense.It is a cult.It has all of the features and dynamics of a cult.

This is what explains why when Trump says bizarre or incoherent stuff, the crowd doesn't really care.Like you might find one person who is like looking around like this guy seems to be off his meds or demented.But for the most part, the crowd goes on with goes on.with whatever Donald Trump says.The crowd merges with Trump like cult members merge with their leader.So if you criticize Trump, you're criticizing the followers.

And that is why they so fervently defend Donald Trump.If you compare this to a healthy political movement, the leader follows the audience.In a cult like movement, the audience just follows the emotional cues of the leader.And that's what you see at your average Trump rally.I encourage you check out videos of the people standing behind Trump at these rallies, and they sometimes look emotionally overwhelmed.They're sometimes brought to tears.

Sometimes they look kind of dazed.Sometimes they look bored and they're struggling to stay awake.All of those kinds of reactions are constructed from the event, creating a collective emotional atmosphere where evaluating the substance of what Trump says on its merits is gone.And it's a tribal participation fundamentally.Now, this doesn't mean every single attendee is a cult member.The structure of the rallies is increasingly resembling the social psychology that we see in cult dynamics.

There's constant grievance.Look at all the boxes, the cult boxes that the Trump rally checks.Constant grievance.Absolutely.Constant creation of scapegoats and enemies.Of course, constant loyalty testing.

Will you cheer for whatever Trump demands?An applause line for constant repetition, constant affirmation.that this is the only group that has the truth and you have it because Trump is spoon feeding it to you.Absolutely.And this is why it is so difficult.to get people out.

So the point of this segment is not look at the look at these dumb people.A lot of the people actually aren't dumb, but they are predisposed either for economic, situational or emotional reasons to accept Trump as the leader and as the person who can solve all of their problems.When Trump is gone, there is a real question about what happens.And on yesterday's show, I we we talked about Trump being presented from this thing that Gavin Newsom said, where Newsom said, I don't think J .D.Vance has what it takes to do what Trump has done.

And Trump was kind of unsure about how to even react to that because he recognized that Newsom is kind of placing him above Vance in a way.But there is a certain truth to it.I don't think J .D.Vance has the charisma to inculcate people in what is effectively a cult the way Donald Trump has done.So cult dynamics, major factor at play in the average Trump rally.

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