{"id":55567,"date":"2020-11-11T08:14:48","date_gmt":"2020-11-11T13:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=55567"},"modified":"2020-11-11T08:14:48","modified_gmt":"2020-11-11T13:14:48","slug":"americans-didnt-vote-against-trump-they-voted-against-more-media-psychological-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=55567","title":{"rendered":"Americans Didn\u2019t Vote Against Trump, They Voted Against More Media Psychological Abuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title eltd-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/2020\/11\/11\/americans-didnt-vote-against-trump-they-voted-against-more-media-psychological-abuse\/\">Americans Didn\u2019t Vote Against Trump, They Voted Against More Media Psychological Abuse<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"eltd-blog-single-share\">\n<div class=\"eltd-social-share-holder eltd-dropdown\">\n<div class=\"eltd-social-share-dropdown\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<article id=\"post-9153\" class=\"post-9153 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-article category-news tag-trump tag-coup tag-media tag-news tag-politics tag-trump-anxiety-disorder\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-content\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-image-area\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-newsroom_elated_post_feature_image size-newsroom_elated_post_feature_image wp-post-image\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/medium-3.jpg?fit=1200%2C675&amp;ssl=1\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/medium-3.jpg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/medium-3.jpg?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/medium-3.jpg?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/medium-3.jpg?resize=1024%2C576&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/medium-3.jpg?resize=1200%2C675&amp;ssl=1 1200w\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"eltd-post-text\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-text-inner clearfix\">\n<p>The word \u201ccoup\u201d is being thrown about in American liberal media today, not because US liberals suddenly became uncomfortable with the fact that their nation constantly stages coups and topples governments around the world as a matter of routine policy, but because they are all talking about (you guessed it) Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>To be clear, none of the high-powered influencers who have been promoting the use of this word actually believe there is any possibility that Donald Trump will somehow remain in office after January of next year when he loses his legal appeals against the official results of the election, which would be the thing that a coup is. There is no means or institutional support through which the sitting president could accomplish such a thing. This is not a coup, it\u2019s a glorified temper tantrum. Trump will leave office at the appointed time.<\/p>\n<p>The establishment narrative managers are not terrifying their audiences with this word because they believe there is any danger of a coup actually happening. They are doing it because it\u2019s their last chance to use Trump to psychologically abuse their audiences for clicks.<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/index.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1326336434068987907&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fcaitlinjohnstone.com%2F2020%2F11%2F11%2Famericans-didnt-vote-against-trump-they-voted-against-more-media-psychological-abuse%2F&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=ed20a2b%3A1601588405575&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1326336434068987907\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Last year the Pacific Standard\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/psmag.com\/news\/research-suggests-trumps-election-has-been-detrimental-to-many-americans-mental-health\">published a report<\/a>\u00a0on\u00a0\u201cTrump Anxiety Disorder\u201d or \u201cTrump Hypersensitive Unexplained Disorder,\u201d which it describes as follows:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As the possibility of a Hillary Clinton victory began to slip away\u2014and the possibility of a Donald Trump presidency became more and more certain\u2014the contours of the new age of American anxiety began to take shape. In a 2017 column, Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank described this phenomenon as \u201cTrump Hypertensive Unexplained Disorder\u201d: Overeating&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Americans Didn\u2019t Vote Against Trump, They Voted Against More Media Psychological Abuse The word \u201ccoup\u201d is being thrown about in American liberal media today, not because US liberals suddenly became uncomfortable with the fact that their nation constantly stages coups and topples governments around the world as a matter of routine policy, but because they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[17039,7844,3847,512,14545,655,658,12380],"class_list":["post-55567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-caitlin-johnstone","tag-donald-trump","tag-mass-media","tag-media","tag-narrative-control","tag-propaganda","tag-psychology","tag-us-presidential-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55567"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55568,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55567\/revisions\/55568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}