Trump's call to @GaSecofState highlights the intersection of "Trickle Down Pathology", the emasculinization of the rule of law, and a gaslighting technique I describe as "the manipulation of the interaction timeline".

To review: 1)Trump attempted to extort election fraud....1/

2) @GaSecofState, perhaps as a result of wanting to protect himself...as well as American Democracy...learned his lesson after taking a phone call from @LindseyGrahamSC, refused to take Trump's first 18 phone calls (attempts to commit voter fraud). 2/
https://t.co/uvrp2yBir3
3) Finally, relenting, and taking Trump's call...... Raffensperger recorded the call and publicized it only after Trump attacked him and the process. 3/https://t.co/b7JF0pjYrU
Predictably, Trump and the Right Wing Echo Chamber immediately went into gaslighting mode in an attempt to "manipulate the interaction timeline". Here is a breakdown of how it works: 4/ https://t.co/Q8iboT0Ib2
....5/....https://t.co/0BBwgMNWQD
...6/...https://t.co/rIgGJH6Wpy
....7/....https://t.co/VgFqT8Qx2X
....8/...https://t.co/BPzJfFSrcQ
....9/....https://t.co/Psb0Dg36mm
....10/....https://t.co/qMBVRT9UNx
....11/.....https://t.co/M48H7651gt
The Raffensperger call is the most recent example of the Right's attempt to gaslight and "manipulate the interaction timeline", by focusing on the reasonable response by both Raffensperger, and the 50+% of the country that still values the rule of law/democratic elections....12/
.....by attempting to focus on and demonize Raffensperger's/society's reasonable reaction.

But, here's the thing......the problem isn't that Trump's attempt to extort and commit election fraud came to light....

....The problem is that it occurred.....13/
https://t.co/4z4hQLNmfy
As alluded to in the initial tweet, the attempt to "manipulate the interaction timeline" has now intersected with masculinity.

For decades, the Right has masculinized conservative issues politics....and emasculinzed "principled morality, etc".....14/ https://t.co/JLGVxiOoVt
However, as seen w/the Right's reaction to Raffensperger releasing a recording of the President of the United States attempting to extort election fraud and undermine the integrity of democratic elections....The Right is now emasculating the rule of law 15/https://t.co/i8um5vwZva
The emasculinization of the rule of law is just one of countless examples of how "Trickle Down Pathology" has infected society as result of having someone as pathologically disordered as Trump occupying the oval office. 16/https://t.co/mAFEkfFERu
https://t.co/mAFEkfFERu
https://t.co/xr6bRRMbSt
https://t.co/u38yXRbrB3

More from Nick Carmody JD, MS Psych

Trump's speech was another incitement for violence. The Right views the military as an impediment against another insurrection/potential coup. This is why Trump & the Echo Chamber have been coordinating an assault on the legitimacy/stability of the military. It's important...1/ https://t.co/Lvs4a0jKl3


....to remember that 53 of the 500 people arrested for the Jan. 6th insurrection were former/current military. The Right knows the military has a potential extremist problem, except that rather than attempt to understand and solve the problem,...2/


...Trump, and the Right Wing Media Echo Chamber are attempting to exacerbate and inflame the problem.

The Echo Chamber knows that FOX is on nearly every TV in and around military bases, so when Ted Cruz talks about the military being emasculated....3/


......and when Matt Gaetz and J.D. Vance talk about the military losing


...5/....https://t.co/23iwQikwgH
The, “how do we fix this” is perhaps the most important question we face as a country. To the extent that it can be fixed, it starts with framing and language used to describe the problem/solution. The “deprogramming” and “brainwashed” verbiage has to be eliminated. 1/


No one is receptive to finding “common ground” when the starting point of the person who claims to desire common ground is telling them they’ve been brainwashed, and that they need to be “deprogrammed”. 2/

This plays into the “Totalitarian” narrative that Tucker Carlson is propagating, even going so far as using the “don’t believe your own eyes” to reinforce the narrative. 3/


Of course, this is exactly what occurred during Trump’s presidency. Basically, it’s another attempt to confuse and distract with moral/false equivalency. 4/

In the past, the Right attempted to excuse Trump’s pathological dishonesty with allegations of the Left lying: if everyone is lying, then no one is lying……because lying is normalized.
It's a perfect storm of emotional immaturity, arrested development, and the fetishization of "freedom" to the point where the *right to ignorance*....and the "freedom" to put others at risk...... is equated with "liberty".

Relevant threads:https://t.co/6at83OnxpK


It's a perfect storm of emotional immaturity, arrested development, and the fetishization of "freedom" to the point where the *right to ignorance*....and the "freedom" to put others at risk...... is equated with "liberty".

Relevant


https://t.co/W78IMiOAmA


https://t.co/UDgKTmjHOG

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My piece in the NY Times today: "the Trump administration is denying applications submitted to the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services at a rate 37 percent higher than the Obama administration did in 2016."

Based on this analysis: "Denials for immigration benefits—travel documents, work permits, green cards, worker petitions, etc.—increased 37 percent since FY 2016. On an absolute basis, FY 2018 will see more than about 155,000 more denials than FY 2016."
https://t.co/Bl0naOO0sh


"This increase in denials cannot be credited to an overall rise in applications. In fact, the total number of applications so far this year is 2 percent lower than in 2016. It could be that the higher denial rate is also discouraging some people from applying at all.."

Thanks to @gsiskind for his insightful comments. The increase in denials, he said, is “significant enough to make one think that Congress must have passed legislation changing the requirements. But we know they have not.”

My conclusion:

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