I think I've found the best yet explainer for Trump and GOP strategy post November 3. They are engaged in a form of play therapy verywellfamily.com/what-is-play-t….
There are two main forms of play therapy, directive and non-directive. At present, Trump is engaged in the non-directive form of play therapy. verywellfamily.com/what-is-play-t….
When Trump summons aides to discuss his second-term goals and appointments, he is taking part in "imaginative play" that allows him to work through his own psychic challenges verywellfamily.com/what-is-play-t….
Play therapy assumes that most children will find their own solutions to most problems.
But with very mentally disturbed children, more intrusive forms of intervention are required.
Patient Trump may have arrived at that stage, and his guardians will need to act accordingly.
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Trump has been abruptly and harshly cut off from his source of narcissistic supply. Here's what typically follows such a shock healthyplace.com/personality-di… 2/x
The deprived narcissist
"minimizes social interactions and uses 'messengers' to communicate with the outside."
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When do Fox News reporters start being assigned "Biden safaris"?
"Biden's electoral path spanned the country, largely bypassing unpeopled sagebrush to join dynamic city centers and the single-family suburbs that once formed the basis of the Nixon-Regan coalition ..."
"Biden supporters seemingly reveled in Trump's descriptions of them as 'rioters, looters, and Marxists,' seeing it as proof that they were looked down upon ..."
"If there was a flaw in our strategy, it was letting our campaign staff steal all the money instead of using it for campaign purposes."
"If there was a flaw in our campaign strategy, it was probably failing to deal with pandemic disease while plunging the economy into the worst slump since the Great Depression."
When my late father-in-law served in Canadian forces during Korean war, Chinese loudspeakers would broadcast propaganda messages to entice defectors. Years later, he recalled one of them ... 1/x
"I don't even know where I was on VJ Day-and if it seems remarkable to you that I am unaware of these things, I must emphasize that at a private soldier level you frequently have no idea where you are, or precisely how you got there, let alone why." - George MacDonald Fraser
"War is like that, full of cliches, and of many incidents and speeches that you couldn't get away with in fiction. Later I shall describe how a comrade of mine, on being shot in the leg, rolled on the ground shouting: 'They got me! The dirty rats, they got me!' ...
... I would not use it in a screenplay - and I know what the director and actor would say if I did. But it happened, word for word, nature imitating art."
27 election signs have gone missing in North Topeka, KS, this campaign season: 22 of them Biden signs, 1 of them a Trump sign. But it was the theft of the Trump sign that led a Trump supporter to shoot and wound three people today. cjonline.com/news/20201101/…
A pro-Trump car parade in Richmond, Virginia, today ended in Trump supporters firing gunshots and spraying chemical irritants. richmond.com/news/state-and…
Trump supporters shut down a bridge in NY today and blockaded the Garden State Parkway in New Jersey. nbcnewyork.com/news/local/car…