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I recommend today's episode of NYT's The Daily, "Trump Sides With Putin" for catching up on yesterday's debacle in Helsinki with a reporter who was there and paints a vivid picture of what it was like to report on the presser.

Date: 2018-07-18 03:11 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] zigadenus.livejournal.com
I am finding all of this so incomprehensible, in the nation that gave rise to the phrase 'McCarthyism'.

Date: 2018-07-18 08:24 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] sidleypkhermit.livejournal.com
I don't think any understanding of it can be found in the nation's psyche (which on the whole abhors him, after all) — only in Trump's own. He's an authoritarian sociopath obsessed with power and violence, and he gravitates to these bloody autocrats because they're the only people he really admires.

Date: 2018-07-18 08:50 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] zigadenus.livejournal.com
Agreed. I suppose I am confused mostly by his supporters. Perhaps authoritarian personality styles (https://www.vox.com/2016/3/1/11127424/trump-authoritarianism) are at the root of that phenomenon as well.

Date: 2018-07-18 09:15 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] sidleypkhermit.livejournal.com
Very much so, and i think the hostile misogyny (https://www.vox.com/2016/11/1/13480416/trump-supporters-sexism) is key too. His loyalists will take on whatever policy position comes from the guy who'll hurt women the most.

Date: 2018-07-18 09:44 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] zigadenus.livejournal.com
That article is arresting and depressing. ...And maybe tells me something about some of the people I interact with on a regular basis.

Date: 2018-07-19 05:53 am (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] sidleypkhermit.livejournal.com
Ugh. :( I'm really glad you can go to Chicago soon. I mean, not that Illinois is a liberal paradise, but it's something.
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Date: 2018-07-19 05:50 am (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] sidleypkhermit.livejournal.com
I know what you mean. I get this, like, humiliated feeling in the pit of my stomach.

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