The Democrat Party is a Cult Actually, more like a cult of cults! By: Stuart J. Cvrk

The Democrats and their media sycophants (many of whom are merely Democrat operatives) have claimed for years that President Trump’s supporters are cultists who supposedly continually exhibit “cult-like” behavior, particularly since the 2016 election and accelerating after the 2020 election. This framing often highlights the intense loyalty of Trump’s base, their rejection of mainstream media, and refusal to support Democrat-perpetrated hoaxes like Russiagate and the claim that Hunter Biden’s laptop was “Russian disinformation.”

There was a run on those allegations during the first Trump administration as summarized here:

The number of commentators, news outlets, and public figures who have compared Trump to a cult leader and his political movement to a cult is ever-growing. The Utne Reader wrote of the “Cult of Trump,” while the National Journal warned of “Trump’s Cult” overwhelming the Republican party. References to Trumpism as a cult or Trump as a cult leader litter the pages of The Washington Post, The Economist, Los Angeles Times, GQ, and Vanity Fair, not to mention online media such as Salon and The Daily Kos. Many of these are liberal or politically moderate publications, but conservatives have gotten in on the act too. Tennessee Republican Senator Bob Corker called Trump’s leadership a “cultish thing,” and the GOP in a “cult-like situation.” Even Donald Trump, Jr., responding to Corker’s criticism, seemed to accept the comparison of his father’s leadership to a cult. “You know what? If it’s a cult, it’s because they like what my father’s doing,” he told Fox & Friends.

Notable figures like former Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL), who aligned with Democrats on issues like the January 6 protests (an “insurrection” in Democrat parlance), have called Trump support a “cult” in interviews, arguing it resembles blind allegiance rather than reasoned political choice. Similarly, books like “The Cult of Trump: A Leading Cult Expert Explains How the President Uses Mind Control” by Steven Hassan (2019) amplify this view, comparing Trump’s movement to cult dynamics, which some Democrats cite approvingly.

Leftist media outlets (e.g., MSNBC, The Atlantic) who parrot Democrat narratives frequently publish analyses comparing Trump’s movement to cult dynamics, citing psychological factors like groupthink or charismatic leadership. A 2020 Atlantic article by Reza Aslan described Trump’s base as a “political cult,” a view echoed by some Democratic commentators.

There is political gravy to be made by the communist Democrats in stigmatizing Trump supporters as cultists because in the average person’s mind cultists are on the fringes of society if not downright lunatics. It seems to work, at least with rank-and-file Democrats. A 2021 YouGov poll found 65% of Democrats viewed Trump supporters as a “threat to democracy,” which aligns with the cultist framing, though the poll didn’t use that term directly.

Yet, somehow, Democrats’ allegations about Trump’s cultists seem to smack of desperation, especially since President Trump was thrice elected as US president. Or maybe they are projecting their own behavior onto their political enemies. Let’s take a look at some well-known cults and see if the Democrats are actually looking in the mirror as they accuse others of being cultists.

WHAT IS A CULT?

For definition purposes, this is a useful description of a cult: obsessive, especially faddish, devotion to or veneration for a person, principle, or thing. Now there are a lot of websites that describe cults, cultist behavior, and how to “de-program” people who were caught up in a cult. Here is one example.

Personal anecdote time. Back in the early ‘80s, I knew an older gent who, over a period of time, became enthralled with/by the Indian guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, who ran a commune in The Dalles, Oregon. Here is a summary of that cult that is undergoing a sort of resurgence lately.

As part of his “absorption” into the cult, over time my friend began wearing drab reddish-colored clothing (shirts and slacks) to work every single day for months. One day, he literally disappeared from the scene. Six months later, he returned to his old job after having liquidated all of his worldly possessions in order to essentially buy his admittance into the commune in Oregon. He was fairly well off, and it was quite shocking to learn he gave it all up to the Bhagwan. He didn’t talk much about it after his return other than to sheepishly admit that it was the most bizarre and stupidest thing he’d ever done in his entire life, and that the blind homage paid by the cult members to the Bhagwan was ultimately what opened his eyes.

Now the Rajneeshees may be a more extreme form of cult, but there are all sorts of cults across a broad spectrum of American society. No doubt you’ve run into a few cultists yourself. How might you identify a cult member? Here are a few characteristics:

• If someone is excessively zealous and displays an unquestioning commitment to a leader of a worldview, belief system, or esoteric “truth,” you may be dealing with a cultist.
• If you talk to someone impervious to any fact, logic or science that is even the slightest bit contrarian to a given belief system, you may be dealing with a cultist.
• If someone gets emotional and irrational when a speculative belief or belief system is challenged with facts, you may be dealing with a cultist.
• If someone displays total allegiance to a leader/concept/belief system/”truth,” you may be dealing with a cultist.
• If someone won’t tolerate even the SLIGHTEST dissent with or critical inquiry about a belief or belief system without emotionally defending it, you may be dealing with a cultist.
• If someone insults you when you provide factual counter-arguments to his esoteric belief system, you may be dealing with a cultist.
• If someone uses exclusively emotional arguments to either persuade you to accept a belief system or worldview, you may be dealing with a cultist.
• If someone essentially lives inside an “information cocoon” isolated from reality and refuses to acknowledge real world information sources and facts, you may be dealing with a cultist.

And so forth. Now people are free to do whatever they want, including joining a cult if that is what “floats their boat” – as long as they don’t harm themselves or others, that is. And that includes psychological harm, as far as I’m concerned.

SOME NOTORIOUS CULTS

Here is my list of cults (there are many more):

• Scientologists. My wife watched ALL of the Leah Remini series on them; I watched more than I could stomach. No doubt about it. They don’t tolerate apostates very well, too. Watch the A&E TV series here if you can stand it.
• NXIVM and sex slaves. This was an organization that allegedly brainwashed and blackmailed women into being “sex slaves.” NXIVM leaders including Nancy Salzman and Clare Bronfman (heiress to the Seagram’s fortune) illegally bundled money for Hillary Clinton’s 2008 presidential campaign by compelling members to donate to Clinton and then reimbursing the members. NXIVM was successfully prosecuted, resulting in significant convictions and sentences for its key leaders. The prosecution, led by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York, targeted NXIVM as a criminal enterprise engaged in racketeering, sex trafficking, forced labor, visa fraud, and other crimes. Read more here and here.
• David Koresh, the Branch Davidians, and the Waco massacre. Their demise is yet another indelible stain on the Clinton presidency (a damn sight worse than the one on that blue dress!). They sure as hell didn’t deserve to die! Read more about the Branch Davidians here.
• Heaven’s Gate and the Hale-Bopp comet. Remember Marshall Applewhite and the 39 people who committed suicide at his request in 1997? Read more here.
• Jim Jones and the People’s Temple. Over 900 of his followers committed mass suicide in Guyana in 1978. This is where the phrase “drink the Kool-Aid” originated, grotesquely speaking. Read more here.
• Hare Krishna. The “men in orange” used to be ubiquitous, especially in airports in the ‘70s and ‘80s. Little did the rest of us know about their sordid tales. Read more about them here.
• Aum Shinrikyo doomsday cult. These clowns released sarin nerve gas in a Tokyo subway in 1995. Supposedly, the attack was “”a holy attempt to elevate the doomed souls of this world to a higher spiritual stage.” Insanity. Read more here.

The above outfits are the more recent – and extreme and violent – examples; there are many more. There are a lot of other groups that fit the bill, too, especially in the 21^st American political realm. Let’s get to that list next:

• The Anthropogenic Global Warming crowd. Some call it a religion; I prefer to call it a cult. Its members exhibit ALL of the characteristics listed above! My go-to resource for “all things climate change” over the last 30 years is wattsupwiththat(dot)com. This posting about climate change radicals being cultists is a great read that describes how the AGW nazis fit the ten warning signs for cults.
• The pro-abortion radicals. Those feminazis are irrationally evil. They can’t be bargained with. They can’t be reasoned with. They don’t feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And they absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are politically neutralized, and late-term abortion is legalized everywhere. [Apologies to Kyle Reese and “The Terminator.”] Read more about their death cult here.
• PETA. If PETA isn’t a cult, what is it? Mankind has been omnivorous from the very beginning, as anthropologists have determined (our ancestors ate whatever was available). I kind of like this opinion piece (among many on the subject).
• Radical feminists. Holy cow are these people cultists! Their incessant attacks on men and the “patriarchy” are unhinged, and the damage they’ve wrought on American culture is YUUUUGE and continuing. Read all about ‘em, early on, in this excellent article by Angela Miles here.
• The Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS)-afflicted. These people are part of a hive mentality who exhibit extreme emotional or irrational reactions to Trump, such as attributing all societal issues to him, engaging in hyperbolic criticism, or refusing to acknowledge his policy successes. The term is not a clinical diagnosis per se but rather a rhetorical device used to group such people, implying a psychological fixation. TDS sufferers are legion, and they are lunatics! And it’s gotten to the point that researchers are examining the phenomenon. This study claims that some of the TDS-afflicted are merely virtue-signaling and not really crazy. Yeah, right.

Then there is the modern Democrat Party. They’ve all gone bonkers in 2025! From supporting late-term to post-birth abortion (co-opting the feminazi cult) to supporting and normalizing all aspects of the LGBTQI+ mentally disordered (especially so-called “transsexuals”) to supporting criminal illegal aliens like the “Maryland Man” over American citizens. Democrats also support the Green New Deal (co-opting the AGW nut-cases) and socialism for all (co-opting the Communist cult). Etc., etc. They are a cult of cults, for all practical purposes, all in service of their crass personal goals of complete political power and domination over all Americans – with any topic politicized in their favor whenever the situation warrants regardless of the facts at hand. Never mind doing anything to preserve the constitutional Republic or to actually benefit Americans. And they REALLY don’t tolerate strays. EVERYONE in the Democrat Party sings from the same script; that includes the Democrat activists in the media who propagate the daily Democrat narrative in precisely the same wording (again, think about how many times you’ve seen or heard reference to the “Maryland Man” over the past month or so).

CONCLUDING THOUGHTS

In reflecting about the behavior of people in politically motivated cults, it appears that we are at a point where any facts that challenge the theories/narratives/conventional wisdom associated with the Democrats and other assorted leftists are either shouted down or ignored by them. This is the behavior of cultists, as characterized above. The other behaviors on that list are typical of your average Democrat cultist, too.

The Biden regime acted as the political head of the Democrat cult in suppressing dissent and preserving the Democrat cult myth and narratives. Here are some examples:

• Social Media Pressure: House Judiciary Committee reports (2024) and depositions revealed emails and meetings where Biden officials, including White House staff, pressed platforms to remove or de-boost content. For example, the White House allegedly pressured Facebook to censor vaccine injury discussions and accurate claims about waning vaccine efficacy, which conflicted with administration mandates. The Virality Project, funded partly by government grants, was cited as a proxy for identifying “misinformation” for censorship.
• Hunter Biden Laptop Story: The FBI’s alleged failure to clarify the laptop story’s authenticity to platforms, despite knowing it was not Russian disinformation, led to its suppression on Twitter and Facebook in 2020 (pre-Biden administration). Missouri v. Biden plaintiffs argued this set a precedent for later coercion under Biden.
• Disinformation Governance Board: In 2022, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) created a short-lived board led by Nina Jankowicz to address disinformation. Critics, including Republicans and X users, likened it to an Orwellian “Ministry of Truth,” claiming it aimed to regulate speech. The board was dissolved amid backlash, with DHS insisting it focused on foreign disinformation, not domestic speech.
• Election Integrity Partnership (EIP): Cyber Security and Information Security Agency’s (CISA) partnership with EIP, a consortium of left-leaning groups, was accused of targeting conservative speech by flagging content for platforms to remove. EIP’s platform processed complaints, including from the Democratic National Committee, leading to deplatforming or restrictions.
• Secret Briefings and Labeling: A 2025 White House document revealed the Biden administration collaborated with the ADL and GLAAD to label conservative accounts like @libsoftiktok as “extremists” in an LGBT-focused briefing, raising concerns about targeted suppression.

The notion that we can peer into men’s hearts and souls and divine what they really believe is absurd. All we can do is observe, analyze, synthesize, and report – and be prepared to change our opinions if the facts warrant! Regarding cultists of the political variety, just because someone says something doesn’t make it true. Just because a narrative grounded in false Democrat accusations is endlessly repeated by many people in the media doesn’t make it true. Facts and evidence are what prove something to be true. And just because someone is member of one of the Left’s political cults, including a former president (Obama), a failed presidential candidate (Hillary), or a retired Obama-appointed FOGO (e.g., Clapper, McRaven, Stavridis, etc.), doesn’t make that person immune to criticism based on the facts.

As for being labeled a “Trump cultist,” I will wear that as a badge of honor. Damn straight that I support a President who delivers on his political promises, operates with the boundaries set forth in the US Constitution (unlike his two Democrat predecessors), makes conservative appointments, tackles the Communist Chinese threat, cuts taxes and regulations, restores military readiness and morale, exposes the Deep State and corruption, and trolls the Democrat-media complex mercilessly with good humor.

How about you?

The end.