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The left has apparently found its new talking point in demonizing conservatives and Trump supporters: comparing them to the People’s Temple of Jonestown.
MSNBC host Joy Reid joined late-night talk show host Stephen Colbert to smear Trump supporters as a “death cult” akin to the Jonestown cult who mass suicided in Guyana in 1978.
“The Trump following is in many way fundamentally a cult,” Reid told Colbert on July 20. “It’s a cult in every sense and now it appears to be sort of a Jim Jones era cult.”
Joy Reid and Stephen Colbert suggest that Donald Trump supporters are in a “Jim Jones” era “death cult” because of their Covid vaccine skepticism. Wow pic.twitter.com/mAx2F5jIJQ
— Mythinformed MKE (@MythinformedMKE) August 4, 2021
“A death cult,” Colbert remarked.
“A death cult!” Reid agreed.
“That’s ultimately where it ends. If the leader doesn’t care whether you live or die, that’s a death cult,” Colbert claimed.
Reid then ludicrously claimed that Trump is essentially demanding his supporters sacrifice themselves for him.
“I’ve said it before, a religion is when your savior dies before you. A cult is when you’re being asked to die for your savior. Unfortunately, that is where we are with the Republican Party,” Reid said.
Just days later, CNN’s Brian Stelter brought on Rep. Jackie Speier (D-Calif.) with the similar aim of comparing Trump supporters to the Jonestown cult.
Stelter had chosen Speier to appear on his show “Reliable Sources” due to her unique involvement in the 1978 Jonestown massacre, where she was shot and left for dead after witnessing Jim Jones cult members murder Rep. Leo Ryan and four others on an airstrip in Guyana.
“There’s no question that you could compare Jim Jones as a charismatic leader who would bring his congregation together, force them to do things that were illegal, and then took 900 of them into the jungles of Guyana, where over the course of time he then convinced them they should die,” Speier said.
“The only difference between Jim Jones and Donald Trump is the fact that we now have social media” – @RepSpeier. @BrianStelter brought guest onto @ReliableSources to equate “Cult of Trump” with Jim Jones and the Jonestown massacre. pic.twitter.com/JmUqAOvWtQ
— Brent Baker (@BrentHBaker) August 1, 2021
“I’ve never been able to say they committed suicide because I don’t think they were in control of their faculties, to be quite honest with you.”
“And the only difference between Jim Jones and and Donald Trump is the fact that we now have social media, so all these people can find themselves in ways that they couldn’t find themselves before,” Speier added.
As some Twitter users noted, this kind of over-the-top demonizing rhetoric is a late-stage step before full-blown genocide of certain groups.
— Robert (@bSmithMagic) August 4, 2021
This comes as the Justice Department and FBI announce that the full weight of the intelligence community will target “white supremacists” and “domestic extremists” as its main priority.
Where do these people think this kind of rhetoric leads? As history has shown us, it’s not going anywhere good.
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