Deprogramming Trump Voters, with Robert Jay Lifton
Public Intellectual
English - December 09, 2019 02:42 - 43 minutes - 59.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 118 ratingsBooks Arts Society & Culture feminism Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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The legendary cult expert and psychologist Robert Jay Lifton joins Public Intellectual to explain what the totalitarian experience shares with the religious cult, how Trump functions as a cult leader, and why deprogramming via intervention and logical debate never works. His most recent work is Losing Reality, and is an overview into cultist thought.
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