Tornado Alley (PROG)

[PegnVA]

Thank you.

I think many of us intuit that Trump’s reign is not going to end well – the question becomes: how can we mitigate the damage?
That's the $64,000.00 question!

Commenting on Trump’s supporters, Jung points out that “people would never have been taken in and carried away so completely if this figure had not been a reflected image …
I have to take issue with Jung's theory. Trump no more believes what he tells his adoring fans than I do, but he knows how to manipulate them and make them believe he alone has the answers...
DONALD TRUMP ACCEPTS GOP NOMINATION, SAYS "I ALONE CAN FIX" THE SYSTEM
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/...trump-republican.../87385658/

As if completing his psychological analysis on our president’s genius for deceiving himself, Jung explains, “Believing one’s own lies when the wish is father to the lie is a well-known hysterical symptom and a distinct sign of inferiority.”[28] This makes sense to me, as Trump’s braggadocio certainly seems, from the psychological point of view, as if it is a compensation for deep feelings of inferiority. Jung elaborates, “Inferiority feelings are usually a sign of inferior feeling — which is not just a play on words.”[29] Jung’s point rings true – from all appearances, Donald Trump’s feeling function and sense of empathy seem highly underdeveloped and stunted.

From his statements, I realize that Jung is of the opinion that Trump is suffering from hysteria, which is something I hadn’t considered, yet it makes perfect sense upon reflection. People like Trump who suffer from hysteria invariably fall prey to what Jung refers to as “prestige psychology,” evidenced by his typical need “to flaunt his merits and insist on them, of his insatiable thirst for recognition, admiration, adulation.”