Kennedy had a cult. So did Obama. Personally, I’ll take Trump.

The Trump-is-Hitler crowd dismisses the 77 million Americans who elected Donald Trump to the Presidency, for the second time, as a cult.

They aren’t suggesting that these 77 million people are a cult because they were opposed to another four years of Joe Biden’s drooling corruption. Rather, they’re suggesting that these people are card-carrying, Kool Aid-drinking Trump worshippers.

Let’s put this in context. One of the defining characteristics of cults is that they idolize a charismatic, authoritarian leader. Such leaders get away with a lot. Think about a leader who says such things as:

“Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.”

That’s a catchy slogan, but there’s a sinister side. The charismatic speaker was sloganeering people to subordinate their own needs to the needs (and wants) of a geopolitical entity – namely, their country.

Not coincidentally, the needs and wants of that country to which the speaker urged the people to subordinate their own needs, were defined by that very same speaker.

How convenient for the speaker, who happened to be the President of the most powerful country in the history of the world. In less flowery language, he could have said, “Just do what I tell you.”

Such sentiments have prevailed for thousands of years, but the Founders of the country that speaker was leading had something new in mind. They imagined a nation that, in the words of Abraham Lincoln, was “of the people, by the people, and for the people.”

In the course of a great civil war, Lincoln with those words reminded the people that the purpose of this nation so conceived and dedicated – this nation Lincoln wanted not to perish from the earth – was to serve its people, not to be served by them.

Or think about a leader about whom it is declared:

“He is the one.”

If such a declaration conjures up the Gospels, that’s because it’s supposed to.

As if atheists comparing a politician to a messiah is not bad enough, consider that this “one” (or is it this “One”?) was worshipped (by the stupid media anyway) as the “smartest President ever.”

Their IQ evidence was as thin as their messiah evidence.

Which brings us to the so-called Cult of Trump, some 77-million strong and counting.

But alas, no one suggests that Trump is the messiah. No one suggests that our personal needs and wants should be Trumped.

Trump never uses the phrase “Ask not . . .”

He’s not known for flowery language at all. His best and most persuasive speech was to repeat a single word three times. Blood flowed down his face as he stumbled to his feet and shouted: “FIGHT, FIGHT, FIGHT!”

I don’t worship Trump. His human flaws are painfully obvious at times. He’s certainly no messiah, and his White House is no Camelot. But this is not the time for a messiah, and Camelot never actually existed in either medieval England or 60s America.

What America needs is a course correction. We need to get government back on a path that serves us.

I believe that, with the help of talented people, a bit of luck, and Providence, Trump might be able to make that correction. That makes me an optimist, not a cultist.