{"id":47071,"date":"2020-11-06T17:39:12","date_gmt":"2020-11-06T22:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=47071"},"modified":"2020-11-06T17:39:12","modified_gmt":"2020-11-06T22:39:12","slug":"can-trump-voters-be-subjects-of-mass-psychosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=47071","title":{"rendered":"Can Trump voters be subjects of mass psychosis?"},"content":{"rendered":"

As I said earlier today,<\/a> my sister and I were trying to figure out the Trump support conundrum and I suggested it’s sort of like mass psychosis.<\/p>\n

Neither of us knows whether it is possible.<\/p>\n

But poets and philosophers do. I just picked up this quote from Nietzsche<\/a> in a reader’s comment to today’s NYT Roger Cohen<\/a> column:<\/p>\n

“In individuals, insanity is rare, but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs, it is the rule.”<\/em><\/p>\n

By the way, Nietzsche himself went mad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As I said earlier today, my sister and I were trying to figure out the Trump support conundrum and I suggested it’s sort of like mass psychosis. Neither of us knows whether it is possible. But poets and philosophers do. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4789,1095,1175,2902],"tags":[6433,6432,2973,1172],"class_list":["post-47071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political-campaigns","category-politics","category-the-facts-of-life","category-trump-stuff","tag-mass-psychosis","tag-nietzsche","tag-roger-cohen","tag-trump"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t