The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements by Eric Hoffer was published in 1951, and it is a scathing call-out post for the trans movement.

There is apparently some connection between dissatisfaction with oneself and a proneness to credulity. The urge to escape our real self is also an urge to escape the rational and the obvious. The refusal to see ourselves as we are develops a distaste for facts and cold logic. There is no hope for the frustrated in the actual and the possible. Salvation can come to them only from the miraculous, which seeps through a crack in the iron wall of inexorable reality. They ask to be deceived. What Stresemann said of the Germans is true of the frustrated in general: “[They] pray not only for [their] daily bread, but also for [their] daily illusion.” The rule seems to be that those who find no difficulty in deceiving themselves are easily deceived by others.

I'm really enjoying it, and I think a lot of you guys would too. I cannot think of another non-fiction book that has made me cackle with laughter. It's also a surprisingly short read.