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ShazzieB

(22,208 posts)
Wed Jul 9, 2025, 10:54 PM Jul 2025

What makes MAGA so cruel? A psychiatrist explains

Last edited Fri Jul 11, 2025, 05:08 AM - Edit history (1)

I'm just going to plunk this down here.

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Response to ShazzieB (Original post)

SoFlaBro

(3,730 posts)
4. Orange Bastard got fat as shit shoveling that garbage food into his sloppy fucking pig face.
Wed Jul 9, 2025, 11:54 PM
Jul 2025

sheshe2

(95,884 posts)
6. This is the BIGGEST I have seen him!
Thu Jul 10, 2025, 12:27 AM
Jul 2025

He can't even sit up straight in a chair. He is always hunched over.

SoFlaBro

(3,730 posts)
9. That fat fucking Orange Bastard ain't gonna make it too far being nearly 80 & a sloppy fucking asshole eating junk food.
Thu Jul 10, 2025, 03:14 PM
Jul 2025

BigmanPigman

(54,570 posts)
7. What are those things in his back pockets?
Thu Jul 10, 2025, 02:45 AM
Jul 2025

Is he just "happy" to see Kristi or are those two orders of cheeseburgers with fries?

Years ago a psychiatrist said tRump is not a psychopath but he IS a sociopath. His cult followers have a whole separate mental illness.

Our country is beyond classic "crazy". When the POTUS and his constituents are bat shit crazy we are in a very fucked up time in history. It was NEVER like this before. Nixon..nope. Raygun...nope. Bushes 1 and 2

BoRaGard

(7,591 posts)
8. She (R) made the Texas flood victims wait 3 days?
Thu Jul 10, 2025, 04:55 AM
Jul 2025

She's worse than a republicon, if you can imagine.

paulkienitz

(1,501 posts)
2. That whole explanation boils down to "they're fascists"
Wed Jul 9, 2025, 11:37 PM
Jul 2025

because the essence of fascism is not how the country is governed, but how the officially supported social group is put above other social groups. The abuse and oppression of those not aligned with the fascist subculture is the foundation of the whole movement. The authoritarian government is secondary, and they don't care much how it actually governs. It's popular only when it's establishing the desired oppression of targeted groups.

From what I've seen of polling lately, it looks like the Big Baleful Bill hurt Trump's popularity, but it went back up again once the news cycle was more about Alligator Auschwitz. That horrific concentration camp is exactly what MAGA wants from their government.

Festivito

(13,852 posts)
5. This was excellent, though crank the volume, he eats too many words.
Thu Jul 10, 2025, 12:04 AM
Jul 2025

IGNORE THE FOLLOWING. I WAS TRYING TO TAKE NOTES AND RAN OUT OF TIME.
Trump wing tend toward authoritarianism (rules, hierarchy, LEADER)
Not all the time. Authoritarianism is not stable. Reactivate by fear.

Trump supporters are not poor, not ultra rich, but they have perceived social status.
Automatic right to superior social status is threatened. Cultural dethronement.

Whites are threatened by browns and blacks being educated, in business, ...
Men are threatened by women taking over. Also educated. Getting advancements.
Hispanics are threatened by immigrants. To be taking their positions.
Blacks with local social status fear upheaval. Losing their earned social position.

Fear invokes authoritarians to be mean.

Kid Berwyn

(22,946 posts)
14. "Automatic right to superior social status is threatened. Cultural dethronement."
Thu Jul 10, 2025, 04:48 PM
Jul 2025

Absolutely.

And how un-American and un-Christian.

MAGA is complete NAZI.

Baitball Blogger

(51,720 posts)
11. Many of us knew it but it's always good
Thu Jul 10, 2025, 04:17 PM
Jul 2025

To see it in writing is giving dimensions to the cult we’re fighting against. Yes, they are racists. But that word no longer has any effect. So exposing them in a new way is another tool in the box.

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