Posted on 11/02/2024 4:17:55 AM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
There have been a thousand warnings about former President Donald Trump. If polls are to be believed these warnings have fallen on deaf ears. What accounts for this imperviousness despite clear evidence of his dangerous and egregious flaws? This question has stumped many. As a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who has long worked with complexities of mind, let me offer psychological explanations then suggest remedies that could help permeate this apparent impenetrability.
He offers a sense of omnipotence. Trump makes it seem like nothing is hard, meaning it's easy to be all powerful.......
He helps people deny painful realities and threats, instead trivializing them. He pulls for living in a fantasy world where the true existential threats don't exist. Climate change? ......
He resonates with universal experiences of feeling abused and aggrieved. Trump and family appear to be no strangers to abuse......
He appeals to simplistic, half-baked thinking. Immature thinking that blames others and denies personal responsibility is appealing.......
He provides pleasure in being a provocateur. Perpetually putting your thumb in the face of those who don't agree with you is enjoyable. ......
Speak to the underlying rage. Acknowledge that changes in society have torpedoed livelihoods and left too many struggling while others thrive,......
Emphasize enlightened self-interest. While the psychological approaches above provide temporary relief and short-term pleasure.......
One could argue that Trump told a big truth to those hurt by globalization, while telling a big lie that solutions would be easy. Those who worship him must be helped to see that their rage and longing for protection blind them to reality. He does little for them except make them feel good while posing major threats. It is dangerous to worship false gods.
Dr. Jacobson is Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Emory University School of Medicine;
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...

I am not generally part of the spelling police, but is it Newsweak or Newsweek?
You simply can *not* “deprogram” me from:
$1.99 a gallon gas
$1.99 a gallon milk
Mortgage rates at 2.5%
America as an energy exporting nation
Iran’s nuclear program shut down
North Korea not firing missiles at Guam
Our southern border sealed tight
Russia not invading her weaker neighbors
North Korean troops not fighting in Europe
Black unemployment at historically low levels
A Department of Justice not trying to jail political opponents
etc
etc
It’s SatanWeak
SatanicWeak
Ahhh...so she does, or ought to, know the meaning of ‘projection.’
It’s probably all of that glowing press that Trump gets 24/7 that has folks confused. /s
😅😀😂
Should Wendy Jacobson be committed to an asylum? Asking for a friend.
me and wifey cannot and do not pretend to speak for anyone else but we fully reject the “cult” label bandied about by the so-called professional anal-lists that seem to believe they know something about folks like us that they cannot POSSIBLY know. we have a saying in this house gleaned long long ago from rush in his mid-season of life and it gets repeated from time to time when dealing with people who DON’T know us yet presume upon themselves to know why we believe what we believe...We don’t agree with President Donald J Trump, HE agrees with US! it really is that simple.
Biden’s Tuesday call with Voto Latino made headlines after he referred to Trump supporters as “garbage”. “The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters,” Biden said (a comedian at Trump’s rally likened Puerto Rico to a “floating island of garbage.”)
After fatally wounding Harris’ ambitions, he backtracked,
but to no avail........the damage was done.
So bad Harris ordered him off her campaign trail. Scheduled Biden campaign
events for Harris announced by the WH have been hastily scuttled.
It is patently illegal to change a presidential quote b/c,
as Obama said, “everything a president says is important.”
Yet another angry outburst at us because we will not think the way they want us to think. This particular outburst includes the promise of deprogramming us.
The Trump Hate crowd is a cult
No matter how you spell it, it’s still Deep State.
Newsweak. Based on the strength of their analysis capabilities.
And so is the author.
we have a Rush saying gleaned long long ago
repeated from time to time for people who presume
to know why we believe what we believe...
“We don’t agree with President Donald J Trump, HE agrees with US!”
........it really is that simple........
Beautiful.
She’s another “professional” death cult member of the spirit of antichrist Democrats
...from Democrats (and their media), Marxists, Deep State denizens, and swamp creatures who want to prevent him from threatening their plans to take over the country.
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