4 Poll Questions Show That Trump Has Turned The Republican Party Into A Cult

Last updated on July 17th, 2023 at 07:20 pm

Four polling questions asked of Republicans in North Carolina revealed that the GOP had been taken over by Donald Trump’s cult.

PPP asked Trump supporters in North Carolina about four recent Trump statements:

-69% of Trump voters think that if Hillary Clinton wins the election, it will be because it was rigged, to only 16% who think it would be because she got more vote than Trump. More specifically 40% of Trump voters think that ACORN (which hasn’t existed in years) will steal the election for Clinton. That shows the long staying power of GOP conspiracy theories.

-48% of Trump voters think that Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton deserve the blame for Humayun Khan’s death to 16% who absolve them and 36% who aren’t sure one way or the other (Obama was in the Illinois Legislature when it happened.) Showing the extent to which Trump supporters buy into everything he says, 40% say his comments about the Khans last week were appropriate to only 22% who will grant that they were inappropriate. And 39% of Trump voters say they view the Khan family negatively, to just 11% who have a positive opinion of them.

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-Even though Trump ended up admitting it didn’t exist 47% of his voters say they saw the video of Iran collecting 400 million dollars from the United States to only 46% who say they didn’t see the video. Showing the extent to which the ideas Trump floats and the coverage they get can overshadow the facts, even 25% of Clinton voters claim to have seen the nonexistent video.

-Trump said last week that Hillary Clinton is the devil, and 41% of Trump voters say they think she is indeed the devil to 42% who disagree with that sentiment and 17% who aren’t sure one way or the other.

Donald Trump supporters believe statements that the candidate has made that have been proven false. Reality and facts don’t matter to many of Donald Trump’s supporters. They are blindly believing what Trump tells them.

The Republican Party because of its central weakness and internal dysfunction has been taken over by a cult that worships Donald Trump.

North Carolina Republicans are not alone. Trump supporters all across the United States are blindly following a candidate who is selling himself as a political messiah who will make everything great through his otherworldly greatness making powers.

Because of the deep fractures within their party, Republicans have been susceptible to the rise of a demagogue like Trump since George W. Bush left office. The GOP has gotten smaller more extreme and has become the party of Americans who have rejected facts for belief.

The mindset and dynamics were already inside the Republican Party before Trump arrived. All Trump did was give the cult-like segment of the party the leader that it craved.

What the PPP results in North Carolina demonstrate is that Donald Trump isn’t leading a political party. Trump took over a political party and turned it into a cult.

Jason Easley

Jason is the managing editor. He is also a White House Press Pool and a Congressional correspondent for PoliticusUSA. Jason has a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science. His graduate work focused on public policy, with a specialization in social reform movements.

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