A "cult of personality"? Not clear to me what principle/s MAGA would claim. Anti-integrity? Treachery? Anti-law? What U.S. presidential candidate has been a more convicted criminal than Trump?
cult (kŭlt)
n.
1.
a. A religion or religious sect generally considered to be extremist or false, with its followers often living in an unconventional manner under the guidance of an authoritarian, charismatic leader.
b. The followers of such a religion or sect.
2. A system or community of religious worship and ritual.
3. The formal means of expressing religious reverence; religious ceremony and ritual.
4. A usually nonscientific method or regimen claimed by its originator to have exclusive or exceptional power in curing a particular disease.
5.
a. Obsessive, especially faddish, devotion to or veneration for a person, principle, or thing.
b. The object of such devotion.
6. An exclusive group of persons sharing an esoteric, usually artistic or intellectual interest.
[Latin cultus, worship, from past participle of colere, to cultivate; see kwel-1 in the Appendix of Indo-European roots.]
cultic, cultish adj.
cultism n.
cultist n.
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non compos mentis
The Latin
non compos mentis translates as “
not of sound mind.” In the 1928
Hellman Commercial Trust & Savings Bank v. Alden opinion, the Supreme Court of California stated that the term’s legal usage encompassed “all degrees of mental incompetency known to the law” and compared it to the Standard Dictionary definition of an “unsound mind.” In specifying the term’s legal scope, the Court of Civil Appeals of Alabama, in the 1985
Goza v. Goza holding, noted that “[m]ere emotional instability or depression” does not qualify as
non compos mentis, and that while the term “does not necessarily denote a total destruction of the intellect, … there must be at least such a severe impairment of the mental faculties as to make the movant incapable of protecting himself or of managing his affairs.” The United States Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia Circuit provided a similar definition in the 1998
Smith-Haynie v. District of Columbia opinion to clarify the term’s meaning, as found in
Section 12-302 of the Code of the District of Columbia. The court wrote that the disability of a person claiming to be
non compos mentis must be “of such a nature as to show [she] is unable to manage [her] business affairs or estate, or to comprehend [her] legal rights or liabilities.”
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