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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"The Reverse-Gaslighting of Donald Trump"
Nice story that nails how Donald Trump and the Republican party are essentially trying to gaslight an entire Nation.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/27/magazine/the-reverse-gaslighting-of-donald-trump.html?_r=0
When I watch Donald Trump, I sometimes feel like Ingrid Bergman not European and glamorous, but unnerved, as though Im being gaslit, as in the famous plot of her old classic movie Gaslight. The lights are flickering, but her characters husband, who is secretly a seriously bad dude, is convincing her that no such thing is occurring. He is trying to get her to question her sense of reality, to think her mind is playing tricks on her in short, to convince her that she is going slightly crazy, a tactic that can be scarily effective.
Trumps compulsive lies are a well-known fact of the campaign at this point, but I still questioned my own reality for a moment on Monday night whenever he fudged the truth as when he implied that by saying Hillary Clinton did not have the presidential look, he meant she did not have the stamina (this is a lot like his saying that when he insulted Carly Fiorinas face, he really meant her persona). Id already seen a clip of him in which he goes after Clintons lack of a presidential look, specifically but even so, I had that normal human response, a bit of self-doubt. Maybe it was taken out of context? I went back and looked nope, there he is back in September, telling ABCs David Muir, I just dont think she has a presidential look, and you need a presidential look.
Trump tries to gaslight an entire country when he plays fast and loose with the truth or insists on logic-defying connections each of which is an apt tactic for someone who often questions the mental health of women who dare to criticize him. If they are women with big careers, like Maureen Dowd, Mika Brzezinski and Debbie Wasserman Schultz, they are neurotic. He called the Rev. Faith Green Timmons, a pastor who calmly and boldly interrupted him at her church in Flint, Mich., nervous, which is apparently the black womans (or middle-class womans) version of neurotic. These women are not just wrong, to Trump; they are suffering from a kind of mental or medical condition. Its organic, its biological, the feminist writer Elaine Showalter, the author of Hystories: Hysterical Epidemics and Modern Culture, says. Its something that comes out of their gender like whatever was coming out of Megyn Kelly. Women, he clearly believes, or wants us to believe, are emotional, guided by feelings rather than reason, which presumably makes them unfit to lead (or unfit to give Trump a hard time).
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"The Reverse-Gaslighting of Donald Trump" (Original Post)
TomCADem
Nov 2016
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cilla4progress
(24,736 posts)1. So
Right on
dalton99
(781 posts)2. Trump is an experienced con man.
He's very, very good at this shit.