The Conservative Cult of Victimhood Trump was a perpetrator who thought himself a victim,

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The Conservative Cult of Victimhood

Trump was a perpetrator who thought himself a victim, and American society has indulged that same illusion among Trump supporters.

JANUARY 11, 2021

David Frum

Staff writer at The Atlantic

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/01/conservatism-reaches-dead-end/617629/

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But if the conservative world is to pull itself out of the moral wreck into which it has been led by Trump, its leaders will have to do better than Rubio did in his blame-everybody-but-me video. They will have to reckon with a long record of inflammatory deceit, a reckoning with a politics founded on nothing bigger than fear and resentment.

There is no redemption without repentance. There is no repentance without accountability. There is no accountability without consequences. Republican support for the impeachment and removal of President Trump, and his disqualification from ever again holding office, is the first step toward the renewal and recovery of the party that will otherwise bear the mark of Trump even after he departs office.

An ex-conservative friend of mine told me a story about a conversation she had with someone who remained much more active in the conservative movement. The active conservative had raged about “liberal elites” until finally my friend could stand it no longer: “You went to law school. Why aren’t you an elite?” The active conservative paused, reflected, and then answered, “Well, what do you want me to call the people I hate?”

Maybe it’s time to stop hating so many people. Maybe that’s the beginning of the way back from following Trump to rejoining America.

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1. The same sense of victimhood that Evangelical pastors tap into to manipulate & fleece their flock.

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2. And Republicans victimized them by getting rid of unions and gutting

the middle class.