messianic

Since “The Empire Strikes Back,” the movies have swung between messianic heroism and a more accommodating vision of how revolutions really happen.

In a moment of drunken grief, Lola says something sort of messianic, which someone else cuts together into a video perfect for a grieving world, and suddenly she’s a viral sensation.

Today, the messianic idea grips settlers like Simcha more powerfully than ever.

It has been so easy for a disruptor in chief with fascist ambitions, messianic leadership and outdated and highly ideological economic whims and practices to deform and attack the most basic principles of democracy.

Such utopian — and even messianic — ideologies typically contain a “pseudoreligious quality” that elicit an unwavering passion among their followers, even a cult of personality.