{"id":3201,"date":"2026-07-12T16:07:36","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T16:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=3201"},"modified":"2026-07-12T16:07:36","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T16:07:36","slug":"religious-christian-talks-how-to-deprogram-the-maga-cult","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=3201","title":{"rendered":"Religious Christian talks how to deprogram the MAGA cult"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>President Donald Trump\u2019s supporters have long been accused of acting like they are in a cult and viciously turning on anyone who criticizes their leader. Now Corey Nathan,<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=3199\">New study exposes glaring hypocrisies in how Trump voters obey him<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is such a thing as Trump Derangement Syndrome, but it\u2019s not what you think,\u201d wrote Corey Nathan, who was born Jewish and subsequently converted to Christianity, in an editorial for a conservative publication called The Dispatch. Instead of using it to describe people who criticize Trump, Nathan argued that it refers to people \u201cwho look upon the words and actions of Donald Trump and cannot see them for what they are. On any given day, his conduct exhibits the very antithesis of what Scripture\u2014or anyone with the most basic sense of decency\u2014calls virtue.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>He mentioned that, whenever he cites Trump\u2019s numerous actions that would be described as sins according to the tenets of Christianity, he receives \u201cnow entirely predictable, seemingly reflexive comebacks. \u2018Oh, well what about Biden? What about Ka-MAH-la? What about Obama? Nobody was more arrogant than Barack Hussein Obama.\u2019 Or something like, \u2018Doesn\u2019t the Bible tell you not to judge?\u2019 Or maybe simply, and this was said to me just last week, \u2018The TDS is strong in you, man.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nathan continued that these arguments tend to be self-serving and one-way, made by people who are putting out whatever they hope might help them defend Trump rather than because there is any internal consistency or moral logic to what they are propounding. In this expedient and irrational mindset, Nathan compared Trump supporters to individuals struggling with addiction issues.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe dynamic feels familiar: the denial, the defensiveness, the way confrontation closes doors that patience might eventually open,\u201d Nathan wrote. \u201cThe problem I keep wrestling with isn\u2019t political. It\u2019s human. What do we do when people we love become morally and epistemically unavailable to us?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added, \u201cBy that I mean, why do people I care about seem not even to know about example after example (and the volume is part of the MAGA strategy) of what should be disqualifying statements and actions Trump has made through the years? By the time you\u2019ve cataloged everything, you\u2019ve already forgotten Helsinki. You\u2019ve forgotten his sanitization and deflections for people chanting \u2018the Jews will not replace us.\u2019 You\u2019ve forgotten \u2018I like people who weren\u2019t captured.\u2019 Those moments now seem almost quaint.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Describing this phenomenon as \u201ca moral and epistemic disorder, a specific kind of blindness with a specific structure,\u201d Nathan compared the attitudes of Trump supporters to those that facilitated the rise of fascists in the 20th century and were chronicled by writers of the time like George Orwell and Theodor Adorno.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are moments in history when one thing is happening that dwarfs everything else,\u201d Nathan argued. \u201cThe people who miss it aren\u2019t always wrong about their concerns; they\u2019re just catastrophically misallocating their moral attention. My friend the pastor isn\u2019t pro-Trump, exactly. He\u2019s distracted. And distraction, at this historical moment, is its own form of complicity. But Trump promises to win the culture war this faith leader is losing. In exchange, he doesn\u2019t have to look too hard at the man doing the winning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=3197\">Staffers worry top law firm sold its soul to Trump \u2014 and might pay for it soon<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He continued, \u201cThere\u2019s also the matter of incentives. Calling out Trump would cost him\u2014empty pews, less tithing, the church across town gaining ground. Russell Moore was pressured out of his position with the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission within the Southern Baptist Convention for less. I\u2019ve seen how that goes firsthand. I\u2019ve been asked to leave Bible studies for insisting on what Scripture actually says when it cuts against the room\u2019s political preferences. The people who showed me the door didn\u2019t say they disagreed with my politics. They said I was \u2018getting political.\u2019 The politics were always there, of course. Just not the right kind.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Overall, Nathan ended by saying that people who oppose Trump but are close to people who support him must continue showing up and conversing with them, in an understanding and non-confrontational tone, even though he does not know beyond that how to deprogram them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese are not stupid men,\u201d Nathan said. \u201cMy good friend is sharp and informed. My old pastor is educated and theologically serious. That\u2019s the syndrome. The real one. Not the inability to tolerate Trump. The inability to see him clearly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He concluded, \u201cI don\u2019t know what cures it. But I\u2019m not ready to stop trying to find out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nathan is far from alone in comparing Trumpers\u2019 behavior to that of a cult. Speaking with the conservative website The Bulwark in March, former MAGA influencer Ashley St. Clair bluntly said that the Trump movement \u201cis a cult. And what you have to understand is that in any abusive relationship, your access to other people is cut off. You&#8217;re isolated. Your access to information is cut off. Your access to people who might have rational perspectives on what you&#8217;re involved in \u2014 that&#8217;s cut off too.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She added, \u201cThese people are told it&#8217;s all fake news. The only things you can trust are Twitter and Truth Social. And for better or worse, they actually believe that. They believe that established outlets are lying to them, that nothing those outlets publish can be true.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=3196\">Trump is screaming about commies because he doesn\u2019t want you to know something<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump\u2019s supporters have long been accused of acting like they are in a cult and viciously turning on anyone who criticizes their leader. 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