How MAGA Cult Ends
Every cult in history has ended.
The Peoples Temple. Heaven’s Gate. The Branch Davidians. Aum Shinrikyo. The Rajneeshees. NXIVM. Every single one. The leaders told their followers this movement was different. That this time it was real.
That this community would last forever. It never does.
The psychological research on why cults collapse is remarkably consistent. Five mechanisms appear across decades of scholarship from entirely different fields. Communications theory, psychiatry, social psychology, cognitive science, and sociology. None of these researchers were studying the same thing. But…
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