Cult of personality

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Mount Rushmore in the United States depicting former rulers George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln
Painting in the U.S. Capitol depicting George Washington (seated center) as a god. The woman on his right is holding a fasces.

A cult of personality is an excessive devotion to an idealized image of a person, often but not always a political leader. Cults of personality are often associated with far-right and nationalist leaders, such as Modi in India.[1]

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References

  1. Satya Mohapatra (2019-06-09). "Indian election: Victorious Modi masks attacks on workers with far-right bigotry" Liberation News. Archived from the original on 2021-03-16. Retrieved 2022-12-17.