It's as though it seems too silly, or too obvious to be a pliable approach to winning... yet trump keeps winning.

If we're going to win back cult members, we're going to need to understand the strategies of the cult leaders. We've known this for years now, but I seldom hear it discussed strategically in the mainstream political discourse.

We've been throwing our hands in the air for too long, believing that MAGA is a calcified movement. But WWE/WWF has been around a long time. The left has simply ignored it as a seriously influential institution. This is why they accuse us of elitism…

Brief: Trump the Babyface, Trump the Heel (w/Abraham Josie Reisman) — Conspirituality Journalist and author Josie Reisman says we can’t understand the Trump era without understanding his life-long pro-wrestling fandom, and his bonds with one of his closest friends, WWE tycoon Vince McM...

I've been wondering for a long time whether these folks are informed by each other... and if not, why not??

The episode linked in particular, highlights the connection between Trump and the WWE/WWF. This was also artfully depicted (if not vaguely) in the netflix doc, #mrmcmahon...

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