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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
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S. E. Cupp

The dead-end doomsday cult of Donald J. Trump

Donald Trump supporter Jonathan Riches holds a “Trump Won” sign before the first rally of the year by former US President Donald Trump, January 15, 2022 at the Canyon Moon Ranch festival grounds in Florence, Arizona. | Photo by ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images

This weekend in Florence, Arizona, supporters of former President Donald Trump gathered to attend one of his infamous rallies, to bond with like-minded MAGA cohorts and bathe in Trump’s ill-fated promises and unhinged conspiracy theories.

They got their money’s worth. Trump pushed the debunked theory that the FBI had plants among the insurrectionists at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. He pushed the so-called “massive evidence” that the 2020 presidential election was “rigged and stolen,” evidence that has yet to reveal itself, despite Republicans in state houses looking really, really hard for it.

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