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The Cult of Psychotic Contempt
Ionosphere Capital Research ^ | 1 May, 2025 | Vaughn Cordle, CFA

Posted on 05/02/2025 6:29:35 AM PDT by MtnClimber

The Psychological Warfare to Destroy Trump and the MAGA Movement—For Exposing and Dismantling the Corrupt, Self-Serving Swamp.

This essay exposes the mass psychological conditioning, media propaganda, and institutional corruption behind the left’s obsessive contempt for Trump—rage not rooted in reason, but in fear, projection, and the threat he poses to their self-serving power structure. Part Two dives into the narcissistic psychology behind the anti-Trump resistance—exposing the unhinged ideologues who vandalize Tesla in fits of woke rage.

The Ritual of Hatred

Hatred of Donald Trump has moved beyond politics. It’s now ritual—tied to identity. For many on the left, hating him is a moral badge and social currency. They don’t argue policy. They chant slurs: Nazi. Fascist. Racist. Rapist. Felon. They don’t engage—they condemn. And nearly every smear has been disproven or grossly distorted.

Let’s deal in facts—not feelings.

Convicted felon? False. As of April 30, 2025, Trump has not been convicted of any legitimate crime. The sole charge stems from a politicized trial over a bookkeeping entry—something no one else would’ve been prosecuted for. Legal experts across the spectrum call it what it is: lawfare.

Bankrupted businesses? Trump has overseen more than 500 companies. Only six filed for Chapter 11—standard in capital-heavy industries. He never filed personal bankruptcy. The talking point is a smear built on ignorance.

Serial adulterer? Irrelevant. JFK, Clinton, LBJ—Washington is full of sinners. Trump's personal life isn’t unique. It’s a distraction, not a disqualifier.

Racist? Flat-out lie. He delivered record-low Black and Hispanic unemployment, passed bipartisan justice reform, and expanded Opportunity Zones. There is zero evidence Trump is a racist.

Rapist? The E. Jean Carroll case? No police report. No witnesses. No timeline. No criminal charge. A jury rejected the rape claim. What remained was a defamation judgment under the lowest civil standard. Her story was politically convenient—and unprovable.

But the left doesn’t care. Their contempt isn’t about truth—it’s about status. In elite circles, hating Trump is the price of admission. It signals you're moral, enlightened, superior. Hating Trump isn’t political—it’s performative. The bigger the lie, the more it flatters the tribe. It’s not about debate. It’s not about reason. It’s about signaling.

For the Cult and the Curious

The true believers—and the paid propagandists—won’t just disagree with my assessment. They’ll mock, sneer, and lash out. Because I’m not just criticizing their politics and ideology—I’m challenging their identity. And that shatters their worldview and ego.

To them, progressivism isn’t a political movement—it’s a moral religion. Trump is evil incarnate. That’s why facts and reason won’t move them. Their contempt isn’t rational—it’s ritual. Conditioned. Repeated. Inflamed by propaganda.

This essay isn’t for the cult. It’s for the ones beginning to question it.

The Cult of Contempt and Groupthink

This isn’t normal politics. It’s mass formation psychosis—real-time narrative hypnosis fueled by fear, isolation, repetition, and social pressure. The term, made popular by psychologist Mattias Desmet, describes how entire populations become obsessed with a single idea—no matter how irrational.

In this case: Trump is evil. Not wrong. Not misguided. Evil.

It’s both ideological and clinical. Studies show progressives—especially young liberal women—suffer higher rates of anxiety, depression, and emotional volatility. In 2020, Pew reported that 62% of liberal white women under 30 had a diagnosed mental health condition—twice the rate of their conservative peers. In that landscape, the media’s doomsday narrative about Trump wasn’t just persuasive—it was irresistible.

The media, academia, and cultural institutions fed that narrative relentlessly. They created a moral panic so complete that facts became irrelevant. Trump was cast as the source of all suffering, inequality, and division—a cartoon villain in a morality play written by coastal elites, echoed by celebrities, and enforced by Big Tech and AI filters.

This isn’t debate—it’s religious fervor. A cult of moral panic, where facts are heresy and skepticism is blasphemy.

And let’s be clear: this is projection from the left. They call Trump a dictator while demanding censorship. They scream “threat to democracy” while cheering FBI raids, show trials, and narrative suppression.

They label him authoritarian—but they were the ones who pushed vaccine mandates, punished dissent, censored speech, and tried to jail their political rival.

Trump isn’t perfect. But even at his worst, he never came close to the institutional control now wielded by his enemies. The hatred they project onto him is the truth they fear in themselves.

Fear of the Mirror

The left’s contempt for Trump isn’t about what he might do—it’s about what he already did: he exposed them.

He exposed the failures of the bureaucracy. He showed the press wasn’t a watchdog—it was a propaganda arm. He revealed the fraud of the expert class. He pulled back the curtain on the intel agencies, corrupt prosecutors, globalist grift, and the smug authoritarianism hiding behind liberal slogans.

Trump forced the country to face an uncomfortable truth: the system is rigged, and its loudest defenders are its most corrupt. That’s why they hate him. Not because he’s dangerous—but because he said the quiet part out loud.

Their rage isn’t about policy. It’s psychological. And it’s personal.

Manufactured and Delusional Contempt

What’s worse than the lies is the smug, morally superior tone TDS-infected social media posters deliver them with. It’s not just hate—it’s contempt. A mix of arrogance and ignorance built on claims long debunked. Only someone sealed in an echo chamber could spew what floods social media every day.

And many of those voices aren’t even real.

In Q3 2024, Meta took down 1.1 billion fake accounts—over a third of the platform’s users. These bots and fake profiles don’t just troll—they amplify propaganda, distort perception, and manufacture the illusion of consensus. Foreign actors, paid activists, and AI-fed networks flood the system to reinforce the contempt narrative and drown dissent.

It’s not organic. It’s an operation.....SNIP


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: contempt; cult; leftism; psychos

1 posted on 05/02/2025 6:29:35 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

Trump is dealing with lots of crazy people.


2 posted on 05/02/2025 6:29:48 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

In Q3, Meta took down 1.1 billion bot accounts. 1/3 of their accounts. I swear, if someone destroyed my property, I would retaliate. On the sneaky side, of course.


3 posted on 05/02/2025 6:34:16 AM PDT by healy61
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To: MtnClimber

Kamalala is complaining about how Trump has made America a disaster but she has not mentioned going home to Jamaica, India or Canada.


4 posted on 05/02/2025 6:37:41 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (When it comes to politics, women are bigger crooks than men. )
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To: MtnClimber
“…its loudest defenders are its most corrupt. …”

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It bears repeating.

5 posted on 05/02/2025 6:45:05 AM PDT by GaltAdonis
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To: MtnClimber

Thanks for posting this!


6 posted on 05/02/2025 6:59:26 AM PDT by spankalib
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To: MtnClimber

I’ve never been one to distance myself from friends, acquaintances over politics…That luxury hasn’t existed - growing up in the bluest of cities, in the bluest of blue states.

And most think pieces and articles are about how personally liberals take things vs. conservatives…Well, Election 2024 flipped the switch. Can’t tolerate this level of delusional contempt for Trump, for his God-given authority, and the inability to engage with ideas as an adult. If the latter, I’d be all for cordial debate, and agreeing to disagree about tariffs, even leaving space for difference on principles as far reaching as gender ideology and abortion.

But it’s the mob mentality and conformity behind the hatred makes me question the core character of people. The pandemic was particularly revealing in this regard.


7 posted on 05/02/2025 7:12:59 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
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To: MtnClimber

Cult is the right term.


8 posted on 05/02/2025 7:27:53 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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