Meditations on the Cult

Donald Trump has damn near hypnotized millions of Americans into not just loving Vladimir Putin, but wanting to replicate the Putin regime in America

My mother was from Georgetown, Guyana. Georgetown. That’s the name of the Capitol. But on a regular basis, she would have to explain to Americans that she was not some lucky survivor of the 1978 massacre in Jonestown, the made-up “town” that was home to the American cult of a self-appointed, megolomanical, hack religious leader named Jim Jones and his m…