One thing that I'm learning about this authoritarian moment is that it forces us all to be amateur psychologists: "What is he thinking? What is his motivation?"
It's the posture of an abused child trying to anticipate how to avoid the next blow -- and I hate it.
It's the posture of an abused child trying to anticipate how to avoid the next blow -- and I hate it.
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Self care has had to be top level lately and I am honestly for the most part usually pretty low maintenance....smdh
(Mary is a psychologist and niece of Donald.)
https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/donald-trump-an-agent-of-chaos-and
Just as one example, SOME of what Trump does (tho not the tariffs) is just about who was last person in the room, as evidenced by the Loomer firings.
I suspect a great deal of what we're seeing (not the tariffs) is what Stephen Miller is plotting, not Trump.
Save for overlearned content (tariffs), I doubt he can focus enough to "think".
They fear a future they can’t control and dominate. But erasure never works.