I would like our government to help him but he's blocking us from doing so with his vote.
"Didn't plan well and blames Democrats" about sums it up for Trumpkins. It's a mass convulsion collective narcissism. The articles you've been posting say much the same as was said about the Trump movement in this WaPo article published in August 2017:
‘Collective narcissism’ explains at least some of President Trump’s support
link provided here
What is collective narcissism?
Collective narcissism is a lot like individual narcissism in that it involves emotional dependence on others’ admiration. The difference is that collective narcissists seek privilege and recognition for groups they belong to. They constantly monitor their environment for validation and are hypersensitive to threats to the in-group’s image.
Collective narcissists’ default reaction to having the in-group image threatened is intergroup aggression. When the in-group is, in their view, criticized or insufficiently recognized, collective narcissists attack back and rejoice in the out-group’s misfortunes.
Collective narcissists are also prejudiced toward groups they perceive as threatening. For instance, Polish collective narcissists who endorsed conspiracy theories about Jewish efforts to undermine Poland evaluated Jews more negatively.
There was a study published in the report that was interesting and aligns well with the social psych papers you've been talking about. In that study, three variables were most predictive of whether or not a person voted for Trump. Listed according to the strength in predicting a person voted for Trump were:
Partisanship (
Republicans most likely to vote for Trump),
Collective Narcissism (
people who scored highly in tests for this characteristic more likely to vote for Trump) and
Racial Resentment (
people with high scores in tests for racial resentment were more likely to vote for Trump). All of this is consistent with the concept of mybias that you discussed.
The summary statement at the end of this touches on why this helps explain the radical and violent behavior of Trumpkins:
If motivated by collective narcissism, decision-makers and citizens are likely to make unrealistic demands on other countries, increasing the likelihood of international confrontation. Within the United States, intergroup tensions are likely to increase. Because collective narcissists’ tendency to define “America” narrowly has arguably been legitimized by Trump’s victory, hostile treatment of minorities may increase, as has been seen in the increase in defaced cemeteries, mosque attacks and so on.
It's no accident that Representative Ilani is receiving death threats from Trumpkins. It's also quite consistent with
@MichiganSpinDoctor 's desire that Trump's policy kills babies at the border. They are going to get more and more violent when it becomes clear that Trump has no chance of re-election. In this regard, I hope that spinny continues to delude himself for as long as possible.
