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[blackhawks]

Capon, sometimes it's a good idea to read the info found at the links in posts to gain, you know, insight and understanding.

Your post is a clumsy attempt at...….

9. Gaslighting

…..thus creating an alternate reality and claiming it to be true." In other words, textbook gaslighting.

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We Can't Elect a Psychopath President: 10 Psychological Terms for Making Sense of This Traumatic Moment in U.S. Election History
Has so much aberrant behavior ever dominated a presidential campaign before?

By pretty much every measure, Donald Trump is the king of gaslighting, a mind game he’s employed on a massive scale to disorient tens of millions of people in his quest for the presidency.

Trump has deftly used gaslighting throughout his campaign to avoiding responsibility for pretty much anything, employing topsy-turvy “logic” to instead place blame on everyone else. So, the media is out to get him, the election is rigged and debate moderators are unfair.

New Republic's Brian Beutler highlights Trump’s attempted gaslighting of voters to deny his use of “birtherism and other forms of racist agitation to build a political base for himself" by pointing the finger at Hillary Clinton’s long-term adviser Sidney Blumenthal.

Even electronics do not escape unscathed: Trump's debate mic was purposely sabotaged, and a “lousy earpiece” is to blame for his refusal to disavow David Duke and the Ku Klux Klan.

Perhaps Trump’s most blatant use of gaslighting came just after the leak of the 2005 Access Hollywood video. Following the revelations, a number of women—at least 11 so far—have publicly stated, using detailed examples of Trump’s alleged sexual abuse, that Trump behaves in real life as he described on the tape.

Trump’s response has been to dub all the women liars, accuse Clinton, a Mexican billionaire and a globalist conspiracy of trying to destroy him, and suggest that he’ll sue them all.

According to Paul Rosenberg, Trump’s reaction "was not surprising: a wholesale denial, accusing everyone else of lying, secrecy and bad faith, thus creating an alternate reality and claiming it to be true."

In other words, textbook gaslighting. Rosenberg cites psychotherapist and political analyst Leah McElrath, who writes that “Trump’s statement is an eerie replica of psychological manipulations made by abusers after episodes of abuse.”