I'm interested to find out more about "our deepest and most insistent hopes and fears." Is there a connection to something that might be called human nature that causes so many people to follow such obviously flawed leaders across time and cultures?
I dunno. Placing Trump and MAGA followers into some sort of religious cult, foretelling doom if he eludes prosecution, and doom if he doesn’t, feeds a self-nourishing narrative. It’s at least as possible that Trump’s narcissism won’t take over our souls and he will fade out of view—much to his and his fanboys’ dismay.
He’s a flawed man and many (most?) on the left are obsessed with, and a portion of the right, the same. For the rest of us, placing him on the same level as Hitler or Jesus simply doesn’t resonate.
I'm interested to find out more about "our deepest and most insistent hopes and fears." Is there a connection to something that might be called human nature that causes so many people to follow such obviously flawed leaders across time and cultures?
I dunno. Placing Trump and MAGA followers into some sort of religious cult, foretelling doom if he eludes prosecution, and doom if he doesn’t, feeds a self-nourishing narrative. It’s at least as possible that Trump’s narcissism won’t take over our souls and he will fade out of view—much to his and his fanboys’ dismay.
He’s a flawed man and many (most?) on the left are obsessed with, and a portion of the right, the same. For the rest of us, placing him on the same level as Hitler or Jesus simply doesn’t resonate.