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Psychotherapist says Trump supporter’s bizarre claim reveals a deeper chasm
What happened
AlterNet reports that psychotherapist Elliott Connie highlighted a video in which a Trump supporter endorsed $8 billion in aid to farmers harmed after retaliatory tariffs, yet repeatedly rejected the same intervention when interviewer Davram Stiefler described it as “socialism.” The man supported helping farmers in need but insisted socialist policies and subsidies were bad.
Connie argued that repetition can make politically loaded words feel true or dangerous regardless of whether listeners understand them. He attributed the contradiction to messaging that teaches voters to…
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