Trump Quotes by Robert Jay Lifton

8 Trump quotes by Robert Jay Lifton

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Robert Jay Lifton’s eight succinct comments on Trump reflect his psychological lens. Though the list is short, each quote offers a thoughtful peek into his analysis of the former leader.

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Donald Trump gives the impression that he would like to govern by decree. He has that impulse in him and he wants…

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Donald Trump doesn't have clear contact with reality, though I'm not sure it qualifies as a bona fide delusion. He needs things…

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Donald Trump both disbelieves and believes in falsehoods, so that when he did thrive on his longstanding - the claim that Obama…

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There's an all-enveloping destructiveness in Donald Trump's character and in his psychological tendencies. But I've focused on what professionally I call solipsistic…

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While Donald Trump doesn't have any systematic ideology, he does have a narrative, and in that narrative, America was once a great…

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Trump has a mind that in many ways is always under duress, because he's always seeking to be accepted, loved. He sees…

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The one-sided exploitation of existential guilt is thought reform's trump card, and perhaps its most important source of emotional influence over its…

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The American president has particular power. This makes Trump the most dangerous man in the world. He's equally dangerous because of his…

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“The ditties blend Japanese popular culture themes of saccharine, childlike goodness and viciously detached sadism, which Aum drew upon as it tapped the barely…

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The scientists who made the atomic bomb are, in my sense, people with a tragic destiny. You know, there was the US race with…

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“Psychologically, nothing is darker or more menacing, or harder to accept, than the participation of physicians in mass murder. However technicized or commercial the…

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That is, we are bombarded by all kinds of images and influences and we have to fend some of them off if we're to…

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The language of the totalist environment is characterized by the thought-terminating cliché. The most far-reaching and complex of human problems are compressed into brief,…

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People with what we call mental illness can indeed serve well, and people who have no discernible mental illness - and that may be…

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