MAGA Cult is a Mental Illness
There is a word that gets used carefully in psychiatry.
Delusion.
Not as an insult. Not as a metaphor. As a clinical term with a specific meaning. A fixed false belief that persists in the face of contradictory evidence and cannot be reasoned away.
By that definition, what is happening inside the MAGA movement is not politics.
It is a mass delusion. And the research to support that is more disturbing than most people realize.
How It Started
Forensic psychiatrist Bandy X. Lee spent years at Yale School of Medicine studying what happens when a psychologically dangerous leader gains mass…
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