Paul Krugman just made perfect sense of Donald Trump, Ben Carson and angry white Republican voters

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2. +100 It is like the GOP predicted that there would be

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despair and tried to create the narrative of its cause to protect their sick anti middle class policies. Hitler used the narrative of antisemitism to scapegoat the negative feelings the Germans were feeling as he consolidated power. If they direct negative feelings, feelings that are a result of their leadership, towards an 'other', then the public never gets wise to the actual cause and throws them out of power.

And psychopaths have to have a scapegoat for their followers negative feelings, negative feelings caused intrinsically by the people themselves or extrinsically by their 'dear leader's' actions: their relationship with the psychopath has to be all aspirational and rainbows and false self actualization and being a part of something much much greater than themselves. Any negativity might lead to reality sinking in. .