"In order to win the 2024 election Donald Trump had to overcome enormous disadvantages and fanatical levels of hatred and opposition. Most of us are familiar with the level of corruption, Deep State interference and criminal behaviour from the Biden administration and its backers that Trump had to get past in order simply to survive to election day. And not merely as political survival in the metaphorical sense. But in order to actually get to election day without being killed. To both Trump and many of his voters, that survival was a miraculous one. If a cult of personality does exist regarding Trump, it is an unusually realistic one, based on the fact that this figure has faced and defeated the most sustained campaigns of media dishonesty and propaganda, intelligence agency interference in domestic politics, judicial activism, lawfare and corruption, and criminal conspiracy involving various powerful opponents and interests ever faced by any President, including those who have previously been murdered or who guided the nation through a Civil War.