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The unholy union [1]

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Date: 2022-09-26

Less than a fortnight ago, after dilly-dallying for years, Trump consummated the pact with QAnon, wedding his electoral future with their bizarre outlook.

After Donald Trump made these overtures, some of the press began to put 2 and 2 together to see that Trump was fully moving in the direction of cult leader. Take Nicolle Wallace, for example. She pulled no punches in her characterization in her reaction on her show last Monday.

I saw the pictures and was horrified but not shocked. This is where we’ve been heading. You don’t start with footsie and end up anywhere other than tangled up in the sheets together in bed, and that’s where Donald Trump is right now with QAnon.

There’s no way to back out of this development. Any “divorce” will be fatal to the movement (as much of its energy is supplied, I believe, by those with abandonment issues as a consequence of growing up in the era of widespread familial divorce—that resentment is one of the movement’s golden geese).

So he’s bound to them. I don’t think Keith Olbermann, who claimed Trump by embracing QAnon has made them his slaes, has adequately considered the flip side of that coin.

He’s embracing them now because, considering the damage he’s suffered politically this year, he’s shed so much “regular” support that he loses little to nothing at all by snuggling close to QAnon now. They are his most extreme and steadfast base.

Trump wants supporters who are constantly trafficking thoughts in that mental world of paranoia. He’s saying, with his full endorsement, that they are indispensible to him. (This flattery will be reflected back to him by his mirrors [followers] a hundred fold.)

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