Remember that gaslighting doesn't have to be hugely emotional. Sure

[applegrove]

vehement denial of the victim's experiences causes shock and trauma and confusion in them as they are gaslight ed and wholely denied. Manafort did it and so did Trump spokesthinggys during the election. But gaslighting can also be a very subtle non reaction to information. The way Trump and the whole GOP react to the Russian interference as if it is a nothing burger or that it was good the Democratic emails were hacked so there would be transparency. Don't let them cool you out. That is an expression in psychopathic literature: 'cooling the mark out'. So that the mark/victim doesn't get the manipulator into trouble once they figure out they have been had. Follow your gut, heart and head. Don't give up on asking congress to look into the Russian interference in the election.

[Sunriser13]

1. Great post!

K & R

[applegrove]

2. Thanks. Happy New Year!

[Cracklin Charlie]

3. Would you expand on "cooling you out"?

I got gaslighted from an unexpected person last year. I am not sure that I handled the situation quite right, although it doesn't seem to have happened again.

[applegrove]

4. It just means the manipulator just tries to calm down the victim so they

don't get in trouble. Reduce the victim's emotional reaction to the manipulation to a point where they just move on and don't go to the police if need be. It can be done in numerous ways including gaslighting. What many in Trumpworld are doing now to journalists and democrats re: Russia.

[Cracklin Charlie]

9. Ah, I see.

My gas lighter did try that. It didn't work.

[MFM008]

5. Watch the movie GASLIGHT

with Ingrid Bergman if you haven't seen it.
It shows the subtleties of Gas lighting.

[applegrove]

6. Never seen the movie. But I've lived it. Terrifying.

[smirkymonkey]

8. I just watched it yesterday.

Charles Boyer can be very creepy.

[uponit7771]

7. Herman Goring was master at Glib Reaction Gaslighting or something close to that...

... that's how he was able to sit down with US soldiers at the end of the war

[GoCubsGo]

10. You know you've gone through the looking glass when...

your senior Senator has been very vocal about needing to look into this, without you even having to ask--and your senior Senator is Lindsay Fucking Graham. We are in Bizarro World.

[Madam45for2923]

11. Yes! I think that's why the day after the election Trump & co. acted very easy going

They wanted us to forget and not notice all the shit around them...

Let him get to the White-house quietly.

But then the recount talk started and the noticing of Russia shit happened.