The Real Psychology of the Trump Presidency E-Book

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The Real Psychology of the Trump Presidency E-Book
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Most purported Trump analyses take the form of politically purposeful
narratives, not real theories. A narrative is a motivated assembly of
carefully selected and proffered facts along with their interpretation that
seeks to convey a truth congenial for the purpose that the narrative was
created to convey. A meme can be considered a mini-narrative with the
same purpose and structure, only shorter. Narratives can be thought of as a
kind of distorted pseudo-scholarship, memes their even less substantive
imitation. Ubiquitous Trump buzzwords like “narcissistic” or “unfit” may
be thought of as politicized terms that come with their own pre-packaged
narratives and the associated memes that can serve as building blocks for
them.
Narratives are not synonymous with reality and bear no a priori
relationship with it. Indeed, narrative is to truth what Akira Kurosawa’s
movie classic masterpiece Rashomon4 is to reality. Yet a narrative’s
purposeful assembly often for partisan purposes does not diminish its
political power. As a recent anti-Trump article headline worried, “That is
what Power Looks like: As Trump Prepares for 2020, Democrats Are
Losing the Only Fight That Matters.

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