President Donald Trump’s political supporters have long been described as cult-like, from their willingness to change their ideology based on Trump’s whims to their reflexive distrust of established experts. In light of the Republican leader’s politically devastating losses in the 2026 midterm elections, these same true believers are now angry at every voter who did not stand by their man, at least according to a recent in-depth study.
“Last week we assembled a focus group of Republicans who voted for President Trump in both 2020 and 2024, and who, except for some local elections, voted straight-ticket Republican in this year’s midterms,” wrote polling expert Sarah Longwell in The Bulwark on Sunday.
“In my conversation with these voters, one thing became abundantly clear in their cacophony of cope: They were not blaming Trump,” Longwell added. “Instead, they were blaming the GOP candidates on the ticket for being terrible. They were blaming social media for pushing Trump Derangement Syndrome. And they were blaming their fellow Americans, who they insisted were just too brainwashed and emotional to just hold their noses and vote for the terrible candidates that Republicans offered them.”
Fuck these MAGA idiots and Sarah Longwell can eat my whole ass.
What’s your problem with Sarah Longwell?
She was a Republican operative and worked at a conservative think tank until Trump. She’s actively partially responsible for us being where we are.
She’s the one responsible for bringing in Liz Cheney to campaign with Harris.
She supported Cuomo over Mamdani. She backed Haley Stevens.
And now she’s trying to insert herself and her barely covert right wing bullshit into the future trajectory of the Democratic party. She’s got no business being anywhere near the levers of power in the Democratic party. And yet here she is trying to claim Tuesday’s victories as her own. Despite being, again, a Republican party operative until very recently.
She is trying to drag the party right and we cannot let her.
Listen to her on Wednesday’s Weekly Show. Red flag after red flag. She literally says she supports Israel at one point, and implies everyone who disagrees is terminally online and an extremist leftist.
Probably the fact that she was part of the coordinated attack on Hasan Piker. She’s also not as good at her job as she purports to be.
Hmm… OK, I can understand that criticism. I’m not a really big fan of Hasan Piker, myself, but I do think that some of her criticisms were unfair and even mean-spirited.
I like The Bulwark because it helps give me a more balanced perspective, but I have to remember all of them are a bunch of ex-Republican never-Trumpers, and it seems they still have some of their old bad habits.
One huge problem with Longwell is that she can’t admit when she’s wrong. This will likely be her eventual undoing.
What kinda Hassan cult fuck are you?
Who tf gives a frog’s fat ass about some influencer on twitch?
I’ve seen such similar traits of cult like behavior from you weird ass Piker-Cucks.
Read something. Touch grass and grow tf up.
Basement dwelling Pi-kuk
Wow, this is a bit unhinged, don’t you think?
I’ve been a politics and news junkie since the 80’s. Hasan is a generational talent who is not funded by corporate money. Better get used to him being around without losing your shit like this or people will think you’re a nut.
Bruh tell that to the Bulwark, and to Haley Stevens, and Andrew Cuomo, and to the dipshits at CNN who keep bringing him up. Trump mentioned him at his rallies. Netanyahu mentioned him AT THE UN. It’s not Piker fans bringing him up all the time. It’s the GOP and AIPAC and weirdos like you lol
You’re very clearly trying to project your own piker obsessions and personal shortcomings onto everyone else. Stop that. ✋️
Bruh, ur assessment of my angle is just straight wrong. I have no fucks to give or skin in the influencer game whatsoever. I never once even heard his voice until Amy Goodman interviewed him on Democracy Now election night coverage. I’ve been astounded that he’s getting platformed by everyone and thought, hell may as well hear what he has to say. I was left underwhelmed and perplexed why he gets so much coverage and noise.
Day after some weird ass Pi-kuck, like you, got all high and mighty claiming if not Hassan there would be no bluenami, LOfuckingL
Now I come here today and you’re projecting Pi’kuc-kult weirdness and again, wtf.
Fuck twitch, weirdo influencers and their low-iq followers and especially fuck all you cultists whether maga or Piker. Read a fucking book. Get out of the basement, grow a garden, walk your fucking dog.
Most importantly shut-thefuckup
But he’s not. He gets smeared by the pundits on the major networks and they won’t talk to him about his positions on policy, instead they continue to smear him from a distance. The networks fear him because once he does get in front of their cameras, he’s calm, articulate and exposes their manipulative framing of questions.
He did get invited to Simone Sanders show and she came at him hard and he bested her pretty handily. The political consultant class hate him because he has demonstrated that you don’t need big money to win elections and you don’t need high priced political consultants who get kickbacks for the ads they buy.
Calling anyone who doesn’t shit all over Piker “cultists” is such a thought-terminating cliche. Do you even know what a cult is?
This sounds like projection:
Unhinged
Lovely word that, and so applicable to your ramblings
Yeah I’m not reading all that. Take your own advice and go outside, loser.
She’s a neocon warmonger for one.
She’s an ex-neocon, and I’m not entirely sure about the warmonger part. Having heard her speak a lot recently, it really doesn’t seem that way to me. She’s definitely spoken out against both the wars Israel and the United States are participating in, the genocide and Gaza, and the war between Ukraine and Russia.
Of course, she and the rest of the crew at The Bulwark are a bunch of ex-Republican never-Trumpers (which they’re very open about), so I wouldn’t exactly call them a bunch of lefty liberals. And they definitely carry around some of their old bad habits. I can definitely understand why you don’t like her.
It’s hard to call them ex-neocons when they like to joke about themselves as neocons taking over the Democratic party. These folks jumped so from the Republican party only when MAGA got too weird for them, but were fine with all the horrible things the Republicans were doing beforehand. Now they are trying to direct the Democratic party when they oughta shut up and sit quietly at the back of the bus. Their ideas are horrendously bad and listening to folks like them is the reason why Dems lost to an orange idiot twice. Their suggestions should be taken with the same consideration as the suggestions of your cat’s idea of a reasonable meal time.
I really don’t think this is a fair characterization at all. Do you have any specific examples of things they’ve been talking about recently which you can cite to back up these assertions? Because I’ve been listening to the Bulwark a lot lately, and I just don’t hear from them what you’re describing.
Sure, there’s plenty that I disagree with them on— and I’m definitely not gonna argue about the established facts of their collective past, but, still, I don’t think your characterization of their present is quite fair.
Look, I’m not trying to have an argument or be confrontational. I simply disagree.
Here is The Bulwark joking about how Kamala Harris is aligned with all their horrendous ideas that lost Dems the election.
Here is Longwell in particular ranking politicians as The Bulwark crew seems to agree with her generally about how Mamdani would be a bad mayor and that Conservatives would be preferable.
Here is the Bulwark crew bragging about how Kamala Harris aligns with all their really good ideas and it will totally win her the presidency.
Bill Kristol was a huge cheerleader for the War in the middle east and has vociferously defended his stance.
I have seen nothing that would indicate Sarah Longwell is not the same neocon who got her start working for one of the biggest corpo lobbyists. She was pro drunk driving.
These people are not to be trusted. They are ideologically committed to moving the country in a neoliberal direction, despite all the polling data and midterm results clearly showing the people want to move in a more progressive direction. When they claim to be apolitical and just referencing data and logic, they are fucking lying.
Fucking thank you. I didn’t even know who she was when I heard her on The Weekly Show last Wednesday, but there were so many red flags. Really disappointed that Jon seemed to fall for it.
OK. You make a very good argument.
Perhaps it’s time for me to reassess these people.
FWIW, I listen to these people as a counterpoint to gain perspective, but perhaps I’ve let my own perspective of them slip a bit. Maybe it’s time to recalibrate.
I appreciate the dialogue. Thank you.
Edit: also, fuck Bill Krystol. Those are dirty hands that cannot be washed clean.
How much time do you have lol