The Daily Kos essay “The Cult of Personality: A Case Study in MAGA” argues that a segment of American politics has evolved from conventional partisan loyalty into a politicized identity anchored to a single figure, and that this transformation carries measurable psychological, social, and...
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The Daily Kos essay “The Cult of Personality: A Case Study in MAGA” frames a familiar — and urgent — argument: the modern MAGA movement around Donald Trump behaves less like a conventional political faction and more like a political subculture with cult‑like dynamics. That central claim is...
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