Trump must be setting records in providing campaign material to his rival.
I’m Joe Biden and I approve this message. pic.twitter.com/TuRZXPE5xK
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) September 20, 2020
But Trump does have a purpose in this message. He’s threatening his cultists that the Great Leader will disappear if they don’t get him back into office. This is part and parcel with his general messaging meant to bind sympathetic listeners to his cause, all the way back to his claim that his followers would keep following him even if Trump shot somebody in broad daylight. That little tidbit set the bar for entering the cult, requiring aspiring members to discard normal public morality in favor of thinking the Great Leader be permitted to do anything he likes.
It’s a despicable psychology that has worked, time and again, mostly in religious cults.
