>Fascism is a form of religious politics; it exists outside of the normal politics of voting, campaigns, parties, “the presidential horse race” and public opinion polls that the mainstream news media are so obsessed with; on Saturday, Trump was elevated, even closer, to full God King status.

This is the actual T-D-S. The cult-like lockstep obsession with Trump and excuses of anything he says or does, no matter how bizarre, outlandish, or factually wrong, under the guise of patriotism.

Not what they want you to believe it is, the topical criticism and revulsion at his aggressive, indecent, and incoherent way of being and leading. They want you to believe that bringing Trump up and rightly criticizing him is T-D-S because they have a knee-jerk reaction to their cult leader being attacked, because they too are exhausted from him, but for having to defend him especially when it's indefensible. So they came up with a cute phrase; T-D-S, and they use it as a means of trying to shut down conversation instead of engaging in the topic.

We're not voting against a political opponent. We're voting against a cult leader and his beyond lost base of sheep who identify themselves by a handful of easily identifiable call signs, the worst of which is the belief that the election was stolen from him and therefore them. Peak T-D-S.