This is NOT the Apocalypse.

It’s Time for a Dose of Reality.

An apocalyptic mindset has been growing since the earliest days of Donald Trump’s presidency. As a cult awareness educator, I have watched in horror as coercive, cultic techniques I study and have personally experienced, are delivered to the American public by our President. His self-importance, dismissal of staff whose loyalty wavers and his compelling, but derisive ideology has been strengthened by pushback from those who oppose him. Opposition fuels a cult leader. So does a narrative that flaunts death and the destruction of the earth and its inhabitants.

The Trump re-election campaign just touted, in all caps: Biden Would Let Antifa Destroy Our Nation! American citizens have been barraged by similar unfounded statements that are designed to gain compliance rather than to engage in thoughtful debate.

By making grandiose promises, dismissing science and reason, and inculcating an ‘us versus them’ dynamic, Mr. Trump has accomplished what many cult leaders before him have done. He has captured the minds, hearts and psyches of devoted followers who systematically, but unknowingly, surrendered their grasp on reality and replaced it with a new cosmology-one that primarily benefits Trump himself. He is revered for his business know-how and his supporters feel as if they are participating in…