Leftism, religion, and the Great Disappointment

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The behavior of the losing side in the late election has been extraordinary, and Drake's recent post about the odious Lena Dunham linked to something she had just written that was strikingly similar to what people experience when their religious prophecy fails: viewtopic.php?t=332618

The most famous example in American history (until this election at least) was "The Great Disappointment" of 22 October 1844, when the world was expected to end. People all over the country threw away their money in the street, abandoned their crops in the fields, and camped out all night until they would be "taken up" by Jesus:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Disappointment

The beginning of the Lena Dunham essay (I couldn't bring myself to get beyond the first couple of paragraphs) is just a modern version of this:

"I waited all Tuesday [October 22] and dear Jesus did not come;– I waited all the forenoon of Wednesday, and was well in body as I ever was, but after 12 o’clock I began to feel faint, and before dark I needed someone to help me up to my chamber, as my natural strength was leaving me very fast, and I lay prostrate for 2 days without any pain– sick with disappointment."

There are a lot of similarities between the mindset of SJWs and religious fanatics. They think they are doing good, they think they know what THE WAY is, and any deviation from that is deeply immoral and reprehensible, possibly incomprehensible since it always seems to be strawman city whenever they talk about the reasons why people deviate. Lena does it in her piece. I can see why you made the comparison you did. I've watched some of the video compilations of these people losing it and it is unfathomable by normal reckoning. And then there's all the universities and colleges literally wheeling out the milk and cookies and counselling. Would there have been such things for Trump voters? I doubt it, though they might not have wanted it anyway.