How Trump Cult Hijacked Very Lonely People
There is a psychological reason Trump’s movement exists at all. And it has nothing to do with policy, economics, or religion. It has to do with something far more basic and far more painful.
Loneliness.
Not the kind you feel on a Friday night. The deep, structural kind. The kind that builds over decades when a culture systematically teaches people that needing others is shameful, that asking for help is weakness, and that emotions are something to be suppressed rather than understood.
That is the story of conservative culture in America. And it is the story of how Donald Trump found his…
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