Why do people pretend the Cult of Politicians is a new thing?

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Lincoln had to die to be deified the way he is though. Prior to his death, he was routinely mocked and scorned and demeaned because of his "Western" roots, for being too rural, for his impoverished origins and not being the right sort of people.

Far more dangerous is when that happens when they are still alive. Fortunately, the only other person to have received anything close to what Lincoln did and while still alive, was also the man that twice gave up power rather than hold onto it, George Washington.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

A cult is defined by veneration and devotion dedicated to one individual (or idol) above all else. It typically involves the treatment of that idol as infallible. I fail to understand how Obama appearing on Jimmy Kimmel is even tangentially related to the issue of cult behavior in American politics.

For what it's worth, I'm sure there are Democrats somewhere out there who genuinely do see Obama as an infallible deity. But they are not nearly as organized or numerous as the QAnon movement, and so they do not qualify as a cult. Basic English definitions continue to elude you!

Obama was the premiere "celebrity politician" in the mid 2000s. The fawning over him at the time was something I found rather distasteful, and it was only reinforced by the endless positive media coverage.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

It's always amusing when Republicans desperately point to random past political occurrences (like the Obama Song from some grade school) in a Hail Mary attempt to disprove the obvious fact that Trumpism is a historical aberration in its extreme reverence for Dear Leader. It is a losing argument because by naming these incidents, all you are doing is inviting comparison between past political leaders and Trump-- and those comparisons never work in your favor. However, we are tired of drawing these comparisons because it never changes your minds. This is because you are not arguing in good faith and therefore do not deserve to be engaged with on this matter.

I don't have this problem coincidentally and I find that, just divine.