Did Donald Trump create a #MAGA utopia during his presidency? What’s the deal with QAnon? Is Trumpism a cult? Trigger warning: reality
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- Watch this video! It features a great breakdown of QAnon, an interview with cult expert Rick Ross, and tips on how to help someone out of QAnon or another cult.
- David Neiwert’s book Red Pill Blue Pill: How to Counteract the Conspiracy Theories That Are Killing Us
- Rick Alan Ross’ book Cults Inside Out
- Steven Hassan’s book The Cult of Trump: A Leading Cult Expert Explains How the President Uses Mind Control (Hassan is a former “Moonie” cult member turned cult expert)
- The ‘Shared Psychosis’ of Donald Trump and His Loyalists (Forensic psychiatrist Bandy X. Lee explains the outgoing president’s pathological appeal and how to wean people from it.)
- A former QAnon believer answers all your questions about how the cult really works
- An eye-opening interview with a former QAnon believer
- r/QAnonCasualties, a Reddit board where people tell their stories of what QAnon cost them
- The psychological needs QAnon feeds
- What makes people believe in conspiracy theories?
- Why people latch on to conspiracy theories, according to science
- An Analysis of Trump Supporters Has Identified 5 Key Traits
- A game designer’s analysis of QAnon
- Teleological Thinking
- Hyperactive Agency Detection
- The Dunning-Kruger Effect
- The people who died in the Capitol attack
- USA Today’s timeline of Capitol Hill riot
- Biden inauguration leaves QAnon believers in disarray
- The QAnon 'Storm' Never Struck. Some Supporters Are Wavering, Others Steadfast
- QAnon Supporters Think Donald Trump Will Be Sworn in as President on March 4
- Vox’s timeline of Trump encouraging hate groups and political violence
- GQ's timeline of Trump corruption scandals
- Business Insider’s list of Trump’s biggest accomplishments and failures
- It can happen here: Latin America's lessons about autocrats unpunished
- Faulty US Covid-19 response meant 130,000 to 210,000 avoidable deaths, report finds
- The Conservative Cult of Victimhood
- The Belief That Trump Is a Messiah Is Rampant and Dangerous
- There’s a Term for What Happened at the Capitol This Week: ‘Whitelash’
- Mass Delusion in America: What I heard from insurrectionists on their march to the Capitol
- The Deep Story of Trumpism: Thinking about the Republican Party like a political psychiatrist
Written and produced by Anna Roberts
Burning palm tree artwork by Perry Vasquez
Intro music by Elliot Middleton