Trump: Opioid for the GOP Masses
Jesus said in John 14:6 : "I am the way and the truth and the life". In 2016 Trump said repeatedly : "I alone can fix it". Are there direct parallels between these statements? Is Trump making himself into a modern day messiah? Is he inspiring fervent devotion in his base? I think the answer is yes. Dr. Justin Frank M.D. on The Thom Hartmann Program identified this as "God complex", an unconscious delusion that he is invincible and omnipotent, which Trump actually believes. This is a break from reality and therefore psychotic. His base joins him in this delusion. Since a substantial fraction of his base are Evangelicals, the jump from devotion to Jesus to Trump is not a far stretch. The Evangelicals are primed to believe in messiahs and miracles. In their "faith" they are constantly asked to cross the boundary from reality to the fantastical and unfounded. Trump is promising his base an economic and social miracle and a return to their greatn...