Sunday thought
President as abusive parent
Friends,
If you’re anything like me, it’s not just Trump’s policies that anger and depress you. It’s also the man himself.
Ronald Reagan’s policies were terrible, but he tried to present himself as a decent man.
Trump is a despicable human being. His odiousness affects many of us because presidents are parent figures to the nation as a whole.
According to psychological research, we respond to presidents much as we did to parents when we were kids.
George Lakoff, professor of cognitive linguistics at Berkeley, has found that two competing models of parenting shape political preferences: either the “strict parent” or “nurturant parent.”
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