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To the catalogue of anxieties her patients explore during therapy — marriage, children, and careers — psychologist Alison Howard is now listening to a new source of stress: the political rise of Donald Trump.
In recent days, at least two patients have invoked the Republican front-runner, including one who talked at length about being disturbed that Trump can be so divisive and popular at the same time, said Howard, who practices in the District.
What had happened to Trump during his childhood, the patient wanted to know, to make him such a “bad person?”
“He has stirred people up,” Howard said. “We’ve been told our whole lives not to say bad things about people, to not be bullies, to not ostracize people based on their skin color. We have these social mores and he breaks all of them and he’s successful. And people are wondering how he gets away with it.”
Hand-wringing over Trump’s rapid climb, once confined to Washington’s political establishment, is now palpable among everyday Americans who are growing ever more anxious over the prospect of the billionaire reaching the White House.
With each new Trump victory in the GOP primaries, Democrats and Republicans alike are sharing their alarm with friends over dinner, with strangers over social media and, in some cases, with their therapists. A recent Washington Post/ABC News poll showed that 69 percent of Americans said the idea of “President Trump” made them anxious.
[How people answered poll questions about a President Trump ]
For some, Trump’s diatribes against undocumented immigrants, Mexicans and Muslims evoke unpleasant flashbacks of dictators. For others, his raw-toned insults conjure memories of high school bullies.
Type “Trump” and phrases such as “scaring me” or “freaking me out” into Twitter’s search engine, and a litany of tweets unfurl, including one posted two weeks ago by Emma Taylor as she lay in bed in Los Angeles: “I literally can’t sleep because I just thought about how Trump may actually win the Presidency and now I’m having a panic attack.”
“It’s like a hurricane is coming at us, and I don’t have any way of knowing which way to go or how to combat it,” Taylor, 27, a Democrat, said in a phone interview. “He’s extremely reactionary and that’s what scares me the most. I feel totally powerless and it’s horrible.”
Democrats aren’t alone in their Trump anxiety.
Whitney Royston, 30, a Republican who works as an event coordinator in Littleton, Colo., said the prospect of a Trump presidency scares her because “he’s a side show. He doesn’t have anything to say. All he does is tell other people to shut up. If he were to become president, I fear that our world would come tumbling down.”
To divert herself, Royston said she fantasizes that “someone will pop out of left field” to become the Republican nominee.
“Divine intervention, a hail Mary,” Royston said. She acknowledged that she’s not overly optimistic, considering that she hoped for the same kind of miracle to stop Barack Obama in 2008.
Alarmed by another wave of news coverage about Trump’s growing strength, Nancy Lauro, 52, a Brooklyn art teacher, sat at her computer last Saturday and searched Google for information about acquiring Italian citizenship. She also inquired about Ireland, where she has family roots.
“As phobias and fears ago,” Lauro said later of her query, “this is not a pathological response to a normal situation, but a normal response to a pathological situation. Picking up one’s life feels impossible, but I keep flashing on those people who fled Germany when the writing was on the wall and those who didn’t. When do you take action to get out?”
Trump-inspired angst is apparently sufficient that on Super Tuesday, as he was piling up victories, Google recorded a 350 percent increase in users submitting the question, “How can I move to Canada?”
A radio disc jockey in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, last month launched a website inviting Americans to relocate if Trump wins. Over several weeks, some 400,000 visitors have checked out Cape Breton’s official web site — 100,000 more than all of last year.
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...I Have Have Trump Anxiety....Too Much Trump.....On This Site....lol.....Or Even In The World....Then Malcolm Speaks Of Kevlar Undies.....On His Post......Whatever They Are.....Most Disturbing..Image Flashed Into My Mind......Must Go Take My Medication..........Im Trumped Out...............Pet Rock...................
Hehe..!!! :-) Hello friend Pet Rock....Good post, as it does touch upon the fear of Trump, which is largely manufactured by the US political establishment.....I will state that Donald Trump seeks an assertive America, for Americans......Now that is at least at odds with the cabal, which seeks a supine America, beholden to international finance.....and international globalism.....aka, the modern "British Empire".....as Lyndon Larouch has so eloquently identified it......I call it the Anglo-Amerikan Cabal, or dark cabal...It seeks a world domination system, in which the USA is subordinate......
Now, we see and KNOW, that like Putin, Donald Trump opposes this power system.....This power matrix.....based upon the dark plan in which the US becomes part of a North American Union, under NAAFTA....In much the same way, as the UK, became a part of a European Union, under the construct that was once the EEC.....
Donald Trump seeks to take on the oligarchs and bankers....He seeks to invest in US infrastructures...He seeks to thwart both NAAFTA, as well as TTIP...........That Atlantic trade monster, based upon a system that seeks the hegemony of corporations, over elected governments....
I wonder if the anxiety of people in the US can be allayed, once they realise that Donald Trump is actually standing up for the national interests of a sovereign US republic, albeit, under his own grand design....This man may trump the elites.....He is self-made and does not require their patronage....The elites look upon Donald Trump as a loose cannon on the deck, of the ship of state...They try in vain to dent his popularity, yet it does not work...as our Earth Allies have taken their hands and arms, from them....They are powerless to stop true voter desires....
Now, of course, like Hitler, Trump is POPULAR and that may be detrimental to non-Americans and certain groups in America...Yet history has and does, throw up such men, from time to time, to vex and thwart the Anglo-Amerikan Cabal...
I have named Hitler and I will also say Napoleon, Mao, as well as Stalin....All strong willed individuals, who sought to prevent their nations from being ruled by the oligarchical financial elites....They resisted international finance and defined a path of their own.....for better or for worse....
Now, of course, this time, the strong individual will be helped from starting a world war.....That will not happen under Trump......Mark my words....NO WW3.....Only peace at the end of that long tunnel....
Trump does not fear Russia and seeks accord...He is a nationalist, as is Putin...Not a cabalist....So there will be no subterfuge and contradictory policy....Just a removal, of all oligarchs, before the mass arrests of the cabal members can take effect...Yes he seeks to maintain Quantanimo Bay, as a place to detain the elites must be available to him....The Bush crime family among them...
I suggest that anxious Americans try to seek a free nation state, with a strong direction, at least at odds with the current disaster of wall street hegemony.....Trump is a member of the corporate club, BUT not a believer in the corporate scam.
He wants a better America and who can blame him...It does need to get better.....
In the UK, after Brexit, maybe we can join up with Putin and Trump.....??? The world needs a new financial system, so the old order must be dismantled first.......Austerity must end and infrastructure must be placed....Trump seeks these things....as does Putin....
So, be in joy.....we are getting to the promised land, in stages.......Do not judge a book by it's cover....Allow the divine to work out through Trump, as it has through Putin.......It does lead to something much brighter....we know it.... ;-)
Drekx, does this mean that we have to wait until Trump is president before we can see some changes?
Well, hello dear brother....As you know the GFL does not endorse any Earth politician candidate for election....But what has happened is that the process of dark control is LESSER than it was, thanks to our earth ally friends working behind the scenes in America....So, we have a juggernaut, nay a DREADNAUT to launch into the mix, known to the world as Donald Trump....He is not a high initiate, in terms of light quotient...only a 1st degree INDIVIDUALIST....Yet we have calculated his "Leo" potential and help him to achieve his very individual goals, as they will destroy the dark in America and thus, the world....It is a route and a course, we have taken, which aligns with the rays of the nation....One that has such power over global affairs and thus needs to be taken out of the global matrix of control....We fight FIRE with FIRE and thus, the path be opened up for a Lighted victory....and so you will see many grand events, leading from this process......NESARA included......It is happening...But first Donald Trump must be the unofficial BESERKER, who destroys on our behalf....It will be so...and then the meek can arise in the aftermath....