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Alternet article: 'I thought voters could see the obvious': Expert offers 'bitter truth' about Trump supporters [View all]
https://www.alternet.org/trump-salon-jacobus-devega/?utm_source=Iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Jan.14.2025_12.35pmsnip of article:
Political strategist/podcast host Cheri Jacobus told DeVega, "Since Election Day, we've seen our institutions that we already knew were floundering, now openly selling out to the coming fascism and the authoritarian Trump regime, with MSNBC's Joe Scarborough and Mika Brezinski groveling their way down to Mar-a-Lago to kiss the ring and beg for mercy and with ABC News and George Stephanopoulos settling a defamation case brought by Trump. The case was extremely winnable for ABC News, yet they groveled their way to Trump to beg for mercy — and, of course — access."
Jacobus continued, "Trump and his administration and agents and other enablers will crash the Biden economy — one of the best in decades — to 'rebuild' it again — except they will only keep the first half of the promise. There will be no rebuilding. There will only be mass looting of our tax dollars, greasing of palms, favors to help the rich get richer, the poor get poorer and the destruction of the middle class, further ensuring we cannot fight back."
McLaren, who is originally from Canada, told DeVega, "Surely, I thought, voters could see the obvious: Trump was a fascist. But then, like a lightning bolt, it struck me — most Americans simply didn't care. The realization was crushing — a bitter truth about the apathy of my adopted country."
Dr. Justin Frank, a former psychiatry professor at the George Washington University Medical Center, urges Americans to take care if their mental health during Trump's second term.
[i]"If we devolve into the nightmare that Trump's return to power will mean for the country," Frank told DeVega, "we must try to keep a larger perspective. This means maintaining our relationships with friends and family and the larger community. We should strive to find those happy times amidst what will be so much darkness and pain."
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