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Tana Ganeva: President Trump’s approval ratings continue to be high among Republican voters and the Republican leadership is largely silent. How do you explain continued loyalty to the President?
Bandy X. Lee: Again, this is the expected course when we are dealing with mental pathology. Studies have shown that “leaders” with actual pathology are more effective in beguiling the public—and perhaps lawmakers, too, although we might have expected better of them—not less.
For example, a truly paranoid person is more likely to whip up frenzy, and hence garner irrational support, among his followers than a rational person who is simply employing the same methods as a strategy. With the sick person, you will see two camps over time: the healthier portion of the population, which becomes exhausted, inured, and increasingly hopeless; and the less healthy portion, which becomes more and more taken but less and less in touch with reality.
The overall effect is what we call “shared psychosis”: the population starts taking on the same symptoms as the person who is ill. The portion that “desires” Mr. Trump’s presidency may seem as if they are getting what they want, but the longer he stays, the more deleterious his effects will be, finally driving himself and them to destruction.
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