When I started writing the previous post positing how people who were abused as children might make up a substantial number of MAGAts, I intended to semi-dissect the king of abuse victims, the MAGA god himself. So let’s get on with it.
Rumors abound about his childhood and his father, rumors in which physical and emotional violence are prominent features. There are those rumors of someone’s Daddy beating someone’s Mommy and someone’s Sonny Boy, and then Sonny Boy beating Mommy, too.
Consider the childish, misogynistic and racist name-calling: low-IQ, nasty, stupid, degenerate, crazy, failure, shithole, sick, weak, piggy, etc. It’s projection, of course — casting hateful names screwed into his own identity upon others, as if he can cleanse himself of the sting. But where did he learn those names?
I’d guess from his father, who possibly called him those names throughout his life. You know, Dad, the “strongman.” The alpha-male who knows how to treat children. The dad he, the perpetual child, still worships.
What a spectacular triumph, isn’t it? Instead of reckoning with the abuse in some sort of therapy (alpha male camps, for instance), he hurls the abuse out of himself and sells it to those millions who now worship him as a perversion of god, a god made in their own strongman image, but better, because he’s gilded.
Best of all, after being abused by his father, treated as a failure and a dope, he has become Greater than his Father! Bigger, Richer, more Racist, more Powerful. Call him Sir, The PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES!!
I think every time he spews out those names, he is spitting at his father. Diminishing him, trying to kill him off, but failing. I view it as a scummy street battle between two terrible men who need to believe they’re titans.
Titans? Nah. One of them is long dead, and the other is a titan only in the dreams he has while napping at Cabinet meetings.
Ugh.