DR. STEVEN HASSON: A healthy cult will tell you honestly who they are, what they believe, and what they want from you if you join. Whereas authoritarian cults will lie blatantly, withhold vital information, or distort it to make it palatable for you

A healthy cult will always honor your conscience, will never tell you who you can associate with, what you can read, or what you can't read, what TV show to watch.  A mind-control cult will control all of that.  --Dr. Steven Hasson

The years I invested tracking and studying cults were literally as valuable to me as the years I spent as a Green Beret. In fact, there were a few of the older, wiser Green Berets who sent me down that road. They knew what few know -- that study of cults is as invaluable as… https://t.co/4p6xnEXPKy

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Cannot make up this stuff. pic.twitter.com/O3E8d6Xvcz

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Here is the book that Hassan features, The Cult of Trump: A Leading Cult Expert Explains How the President Uses Mind Control, Steven Hassan, 2020.  These are the rest of his books.