I can barely muster up the energy anymore to tell you people how right I am all the time after trying to warn you people for years that the Republican Party's insane daddy issues will be the end of us all but hey whaddya know someone's finally starting to catch up (yawn):
Trump has made his daddy issues everyone’s problem, and — as evidenced by the fact that he’s currently beefing with the Pope, father of fathers — he can’t keep himself from making them worse.
Identifying with the oppressor was a habit observed by Sigmund Freud’s daughter, Anna, when she observed World War I veterans and noticed that in processing violence and trauma, they came to unconsciously mimic their tormentors, adopting their bearing and their behaviors as a way to feel control. Donald Trump learned this from his father, and from the father figures who followed; he learned to leverage it for his own purposes. The result is — well, we can all see the result: A president who salves his father’s wound by making sure the rest of us never forget how much it hurts.
