His words from earlier this week are still reverberating — and not in a good way, to put it mildly.

Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) told reporters on Wednesday morning, “We’re in a strange place. It’s becoming a cultish thing, isn’t it?” He continued, “It’s not a good place for any party to have a cult-like situation as it relates to a president that happens to be purportedly of the same party.”

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The outgoing lawmaker has never been much of a Trump fan. Spats and feuds between the pair are long-standing.

Prior to President Donald Trump’s election, for example, the chair of the Foreign Relations Committee refused to endorse him.

And last summer, the Tennessee legislator excoriated the commander-in-chief following the protests and related tragedy in Charlottesville, indicating Trump lacked the stability and competence to be successful.

The feeling seems mutual on the president’s end. Trump has issued multiple tweets expressing his displeasure with Corker. The tweets have characterized the senator as a cowardly person and as an obstructionist who erects barriers designed to thwart the president’s legislative agenda.

Spats aside, Corker’s petty and sucker-punch characterization of Trump’s congressional supporters as “cult-like” is over the top — even for Corker.

If Trump-backing GOP lawmakers are “cult-like,” what possible moniker could describe the simpering devotion demonstrated by Democratic lawmakers during the Barack Obama administration? To what aspect of “cultish” behavior might Corker be referring?

Does unauthorized collusion between the press and the executive branch count? Say, for example, if the media were so enamored with the administration that they bestowed gifts of meals and tickets to sporting events upon FBI agents, would that represent “cultish” behavior?

Because that’s what they did — during the Obama administration.

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How about turning a blind eye to a president’s flaws, foibles, and flat-out failures? If those in Congress behaved that way on a regular basis, would that constitute “cultish” devotion?

Because that’s exactly what happened for eight years while Obama called 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue home.

Lest we forget, none other than the former speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, said of President Obama’s farewell address, “President Barack Obama belongs among the greatest presidents in history.”

She concluded with this cringe-worthy romanticization: “At this bittersweet farewell, we find solace and strength in knowing President Obama and Vice President Biden have always been about the future, and will continue to be a formidable force for good in the years ahead.”

And Trump-supporting lawmakers are “cultish”?

The anti-Trumpers of the world are merely experiencing the reality of multiple successes for this country under President Trump — and they don’t like it one bit.

Michele Blood is a Flemington, New Jersey-based freelance writer and a regular contributor to LifeZette.

(photo credit, homepage image: Donald Trump, CC BY-SA 4.0, by Michael Vadon)