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Originally Posted by MTVN

Cults of personality are just a human thing really rather than a symptom of capitalism and uninspiring policies. They've mainly existed in socialist and fascist governments of course so they're actually pretty watered down in our politics. People will always look for idols.

Idols yes but if you look at them in historical context they were usually idols heavily representing one or more political ideologies; I feel like the complete opposite is almost true in Western political-celebrity worship these days, and the followers will twist and turn along with the personality, even if what they're then celebrating and pushing flies in the face of their usual politics.

Trump is a key example of this really, I fully believe that he could say that anything - anything at all - is now "the right thing" and a huge proportion of his hardcore groupies would wholeheartedly agree.