6/10/2023 0 Comments Trumps cult animosity no lettingMany observers have convinced themselves that attention is like oxygen for Trump: Deprive him of it, and he will die. That metaphor is incorrect: This is more like ignoring a fire and allowing it to burn uncontrolled rather than extinguishing it. Such behavior is an example of what psychologists call "defensive contempt," a reaction born of deep existential fear.Īs I have observed previously, mockery and laughter won't save America people from the hell that will be fully unleashed when Trump's Republican-fascist movement wins the 2022 midterms, and quite possibly the presidential election two years after that.Īt this point, many professional centrists, pundits and hope-peddlers in the American news media and larger political class have convinced themselves that attention is like oxygen for Donald Trump and his followers, and therefore that depriving them of attention will suffocate their movement. They are doing this rather than responding to the danger with an appropriate mixture of fear, caution and then effective planning for how best to defeat the threat. Most of those who are paying attention, it appears, are mostly doing so in order to mock Trump and his followers as ignorant or stupid. Many other Americans, to be sure, are also ignoring Trump's rallies. RELATED: Crime novelist Don Winslow: Trump belongs behind bars - but that won't happen in this America Moreover, ignoring Trump's escalating threats at this point, given all we know, amounts to journalistic malpractice and betrayal of the public trust. That may be an attempt to correct for the wall-to-wall coverage Trump received the first time he ran for president, but it won't save the American people or American democracy - or the "freedom of the press" - from the neofascist assault. The mainstream news media has made an obvious editorial decision to downplay or ignore Trump's political hate rallies and similar events. Trump's political rallies resemble George Orwell's "two minutes of hate" from "1984," expanded to two hours or so. Everywhere it stops, Donald Trump unleashes a torrent of lies, hatred, ignorance, bigotry, racism, narcissism, authoritarianism, threats of violence and other antisocial and evil values. Donald Trump's political circus and freak show is continuing its American tour.
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