Wednesday, July 09, 2025

Psychologist coins new one-word term to define Trump's constant sense of persecution

Ever since his legal troubles began in 2023, President Donald Trump has reaped great financial and political benefit from convincing his base of supporters that he's about to be victimized by vengeful governments.

Posted by reinheitsgebot at 02:15 AM | 2 COMMENTS | permalink

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Ever since his legal troubles began in 2023, President Donald Trump has reaped great financial and political benefit from convincing his base of supporters that he's about to be victimized by vengeful governments. One scholar may have come up with a new term that could serve as a catch-all way of describing this phenomenon. Psychology-focused news outlet PsyPost reported Monday on a recently published study by Kathryn Claire Higgins of Goldsmiths, University of London entitled "From Victimhood to Victimcould: Hypothetical injury and the 'criminalization' of Donald Trump."

Nailed it.

#1 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-07-09 02:16 AM

"casting himself as a target of state overreach and moral persecution."

That's going to be hard to do when he is the state that's overreaching and persecuting non-criminals. Soon to be just any citizen with a sign he don't like.

#2 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-07-09 02:46 AM

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