Their resentment of any appearance of "the establishment" encompasses their thinking, and they flock to contrarians who embrace fundamentally unsound beliefs in a desperate attempt to garner attention through "shock value". For example, legitimate scientists will disavow all the evidence-based metrics of global warming in a conscious and unconscious way if they can ruffle the feathers of scientists they secretly admire. Their hunger for attention (especially the negative kind) supplants all rationality and is the springboard for radical conspiratorial theory.
Trump, aware of the legions of people with deep-seated anxiety, exploits this instability by creating "collective codependency", whose feigned passion replaces any legitimate platform and replaces it with hatred infused banter that allows them a dual venting mechanism: one directly and the other via Trump proxy. Because of the human need to bind: the latter breeds a social contagion dynamic to vent their animus through a third party.
This conflict resolution is so powerful that it acts as malware to corrupt any existing moral software and replaces it with Trump's pathological vision of a world where the "inner child" dictates behavior. Simplistically, it is just a representation of the idiom: "you can't embrace the truth if you hate yourself". This perverse reality is the prism in which Trump supporters view the world; unfortunately, every once in a while a charismatic politician, like Trump or Joe McCarthy, will solidify this schizoid base and create a faction predicated on paranoia.
This dysfunctional attachment leads to a legion of supporters of people who are ardent supporters of a narcissist and go to great lengths to defend and show their allegiance to them. Their devotion shows how easily a leader's unchecked narcissism results in an infectious hijacking of the moral framework of codependent frustrated people. While the economically displaced are his dominant base, there is a large faction of people who are persecutors in their own enclave and feel validated by Trump's codependent nuances.
These troubled souls are perversely motivated by Trump's philosophy of promising hedonism by means of terrorism to undermine individuals and groups not aligned with his movement. His message: that they no longer have to struggle in a world they feel victimized by, is heroin to their fractured souls. In our fragmented world, these minions are very fluid in getting those discontented to drink his cool-aid.
So the frightful irony of Trump saying he is the solution for ending terrorism is, in fact, the living personification of what terrorism is based on the Machiavellian world of divide and conquer. However, today's Donald Trump, an idol to many displaced people on the right, could become a fleeting savior to those codependent on the left, or anywhere our society's collective conscious(or lack of) is trending. One thing for sure: Trump's Addiction Machine travels well and with every malfunction comes a bailout.
For now, Trump has woven a tapestry in the hateful faction of the Republican Party, which is where the public relation's Zelig can best exploit the weakness of the divided party. But be careful what you wish for because the emperor assuredly has many different threads. Do not be fooled into thinking he is a true supporter of the "haves" or the "have-nots", he is just a chameleon who panders to people's base instincts in pursuit of the mobilization of that hollow bias in the political arena where "denial is not just a river in Egypt."...Kenneth Gaughran
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