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What people are seeing is deep indoctrination at work. This is exactly how it happens in religious fundamentalist cults. You repeat the lie often enough, and it becomes the truth. On top of that, the people within the circle begin to distrust the outside world, and so come to the leaders for "truth." The leaders are the cornerstones upon which their world is built.
And to question the "truth" means to question the leaders and to potentially lose your community. This is why for apostates, community is often the last hurdle to overcome before fully leaving.
Is deep indoctrination a euphemism for cult? Because it seems like a cult.
Indoctrination is the method. The cult is the result.
I like the BITE model of cults: an organization that engages in Behavior, Information, Thought, and Emotional Control.
So yes, it is an intrinsic part of a cult.
What I see is that conservatives in general are people who love to be lied to. Convicted Sex Offender Treason Trump noticed this and is trying to use it to overthrow democracy. Before conservatives said Obama was a Muslim they said Eisenhower was a Communist. Before they said horse medicine cures Covid they said Laetrile cures cancer.
They love conspiracies.
Religious people have also been convinced that there is a war between good and evil, so they need to find/create a villian.
Didn't the exact same thing happen with the WMDs in Irak fiasco that ended up killing hundreds of thousands of people and wasting an absolute insane amount of resources for basically nothing?