Posted at Hartmann Report on Jan. 25, 2024
Can You Deprogram Your Trump Cultist Friends & Family?
Can you build bridges to Trump cultists that may, over time and with work and love, help you pry them loose from the authoritarian leader or movement to which they've bonded?
We are living in James Madison's nightmare.
A Reuters/Ipsos poll right after Trump was handed the White House by the electoral college (after losing to Hillary by 3 million votes) found that fully 16 percent of Americans had stopped talking with a family member or friend because of the poison Trump has brought into politics.
When Madison wrote his first contribution to the Federalist Papers, Federalist #10, he described the greatest threat to our new republic as the growth of a powerful "faction" that might eventually seize control of government itself.
They would tear the nation apart, he worried, by fostering phony differences between people and then pitting them against each other.