Well, I don't know about that "cult" idea. And if it's true that any politician who is really popular with the average American and is not simply the choice of the swamp is, for that reason, a cult leader...then Obama, Reagan, the Kennedys, and some other pols come easily to mind as fitting the description as well.
The decision of the Left to frame Trump as a criminal in order to deny him the presidency has to be taken into consideration. This unprecedented move, often compared to the politics of the proverbial "banana republic," almost certainly has caused Trump's popularity to swell to proportions that would not have existed had this approach by his opponents not been utilized.
Many ordinary citizens and voters see the legal hijinks used against Trump to be so unjust that the natural impulse is to support the victim simply as a matter of fairness and a respect for free elections. We should be able to understand that. In addition, many see his "off the cuff" kind of speechmaking (much ridiculed in the media) as being the way that ordinary Americans talk, meaning themselves.
