section_path: Comparisons/Cult of personality
section_name: Cult of personality
paragraph_text: Cult of personality
  
  Historians Enzo Traverso, Ruth Ben-Ghiat, and Manon Lefebvre (experts in totalitarianism, fascism, and the United States), and the French translator of Mein Kampf, Olivier Mannoni, argued that Donald Trump fosters a cult of personality thanks to his charismatic, masculinist, reactionary, accessible, and identifiable rhetoric, where his aura matters much more than the quality of his arguments in the eyes of his followers. The four experts drew as such similarities between the fascists of the 1920s–1930s and the MAGA movement.
  
  Furthermore, the three historians believed that the cult of personality skyrocketed since the attempted assassination of Donald Trump in July 2024 by furthering Trump's charismatic aspect as a barrier between US citizens and the "enemy". As such Trump's followers went as far as to talk about "divine intervention" when seeing that the assassination attempt failed.