The Abusive Relationship of Trump and His Supporters

The Beautiful Mess by John Pavlovitz Podcast · Feb 3, 2025 · 4m

(Trigger warning: domestic violence imagery)

It's heartbreaking to see someone you love in a toxic relationship:

watching them be continually torn down and berated, treated with complete disregard, publicly humiliated over and over again—and knowing that despite how much damage has been inflicted, they will likely stay with their abuser to their own detriment.

There is a unique kind of helplessness when a human being is so blinded by their past hopes about what the other person might become, that they can't see what they actually are presently; when they are so consumed with the story they've…