In the authoritarian cult politics of Trump’s Republican party, the leader is like a strict father who sets the rules and doles out discipline and exerts total control over the family.

To question his authority, or to make an effort to displace him, is to fundamentally violate the sacred order of the conservative moral system.

The strict father must be obeyed, not betrayed. https://framelab.substack.com/p/desantis-disaster-why-the-wannabe-dictator