Support for Trump: Mental Illness? Reflections After Venezuela

Being impotent, their agency must necessarily be projected onto an exterior figure or symbol - man and semiotic dovetail in Trump. We may dispense with the notion of ideology at this stage, for Trumpism constitutes less an ideology than a fetish: a father fetish for the inert who despise their impotence. They live, truly live, vicariously through him. In actuality, they’re akin to a battered wife suffering from an acute case of Stockholm Syndrome. The MAGA base is content with Trump’s serial infidelity: from foreign interventions to his statements regarding H-1B.