Happy Sunday! Good to see you again. Well, my friends, we have Donald Trump in a corner, which is probably where he spent most of his grades 1-12. You know, he is still proud of punching one of his teachers in the face during the 2nd grade, right? True. Just ask The Washington Post.
Still, the man who would be king does not like being cornered. Granted he is one of the slipperiest corner-dwellers we know. And he is doing his best to escape.
But let’s just assume for the moment that legislators on the January 6 Select Committee can keep him there. What does he do but go to that special imaginary place in his mind where he can just “think” classified documents into being?
Is he going for the insanity defense? That one might just work. But it is a little scary that he is not the only one living in Trump world. The Trumpists, formerly known as the Republican Party, live there with him, too. I guess we could call that a mass delusion.
The thing is that is also called “psychosis,” according to The New English Psychologist newsletter:
‘Psychosis is when a person’s thoughts or how they perceive the world are abnormal in so much as the person may have difficulty understanding what is real and what is not.’
Respected medical researcher, Robert Malone, M.D. called the current mob mentality “mass formation psychosis.”
‘When you have a society that has become decoupled from each other and has free-floating anxiety in a sense that things don’t make sense, we can’t understand it, and then their attention gets focused by a leader or series of events on one small point just like hypnosis, they literally become hypnotized and can be led anywhere.’
So logical arguments do not work against this mass formation psychosis. The believer will just use your words as “evidence into the ever-expanding and ridiculous theory.”
But the newsletter basically called Malone a nutjob. Okay, maybe just “formerly respected.” But that is what happens to the minds of people resisting change. They create their own “mass formation psychosis.”
So the moral of this story is the only antidote to the crazies is to grab a bunch of your friends, neighbors, and relatives not under the Trumpists’ spell along with some snacks, hop in the car, and have a voting party at your favorite election place. It could be fun, right?
Okay, enough of that. Let’s laugh, we deserve it!
Gloria
And maybe we need our own quiet place in our minds:
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