Thank you, Mike. This is an excellent analysis of the way in which cults deprive people of their rational faculties by essentially hijacking their identity, turning them effectively into malicious zombies for whom any criticism of their cult leader is perceived as an attack upon themselves. What terrifies me is that this toxic demagogue has amassed a huge following, nationwide, of such deluded cult-followers, who are brainwashed day and night by virulent and paranoid right-wing propaganda, and insulated from reality.