Three words characterized this administration: Destruction, Deception and Corruption. Paring it down to three was near impossible.

With regards to the president and his administration, if you want to know what they’re guilty of, note what they accuse others of.

The arguments I heard growing up in Jim Crow Mississippi to justify disenfranchising Black people sounded eerily similar to the ones I’m currently hearing in Tennessee. I’ve seen this play before.

The stance of a psychologically-healthy adult is: “Truth is my best ally.” The stance of Trump is: “Truth is my worst enemy.”

The wise person understands they can be certain and still be wrong. The fool believes that because they’re certain, they must be right.

Christianity forfeits its power when it seeks to gain power by wedding itself to earthly powers. That’s always been the case.

The ONE AREA Trump knows what he’s doing is his ability to convince some people he knows what he’s doing.

Trump’s superpower: 1) Create a problem 2) Pretend to fix it 3) Brag about being the greatest-ever fixer of problems 4) Repeat 1-3

If Trump had a complete psychotic break characterized by paranoid delusions, grandiosity and detachment from reality, how would we know?

The more he’s confronted with actual reality, the more Trump clings to an altered reality (the one he makes up as he goes along), and the more dangerous he becomes.

From my new book: Ties That Blind: a.co/d/6wWF57N

It feels right now like we’re riding in the back seat of a car being driven by a blindfolded drunk driver who’s wearing a t-shirt he made for himself that says, “History’s greatest driver.”

It feels right now like we’re riding in the back seat of a car being driven by a blindfolded drunk driver who’s wearing a t-shirt he made for himself that says, “History’s greatest driver.”

A week from now, we’ll likely have moved on from the unfathomably awful thing Trump said today because of the numerous unfathomably awful things he’ll say between now and next week.

“Collective delusion is a powerful anesthetic for those who use it but leaves those around them languishing in pain.” Alan Godwin, Ties That Blind

One feature of collective blindness is the dogmatic insistence that everyone else is blind.

The only thing larger than Trump’s personal dysfunction is his power to get others to rationalize it.

The influence of Christianity is never weaker than when Christians seek to gain strength by wedding themselves to earthly powers.

By demonizing opponents, any methods used to fight them can be rationalized. And the greater the demonization, the easier it is to cast yourself as the hero fighting the demons.

This administration’s immigration policy is cruelty masquerading as patriotism. I grew up in Jim Crow MS, so I’ve seen this play before.

Trump’s superpower: 1-making up nonexistent accomplishments, 2-bragging about them, and 3-duping his followers into the fantasy. #3 is the most disturbing.

The more Trump distorts reality, the more his supporters must participate in his distortions to keep supporting him. And the more they support him, the more brazen his distortions. It’s a perverse synergy in which one side energizes the other.

Out-of-context words are half-truths that promote whole false narratives.

Here's the latest podcast about my new book, Ties That Blind. The interviewer did a great job and made a boring guy seem interesting 🙂 sites.libsyn.com/542052/153-t...

In Trump’s self-view: -He can do no wrong, he can only be done wrong. -He can never lose, he can only be cheated. -He’s never unfair, he can only be treated unfairly. -He alone says what’s true, all else is fake news. -He and America are one so if you oppose him, you hate America.

Trump’s constant barrage of atrocious words and actions conditions us to accept the unacceptable, normalize the abnormal, rationalize the irrational, excuse the inexcusable, and justify that which can’t be justified. We must be very intentional to resist such conditioning.

Trump is now and always has been a racist. He's sometimes tried to camouflage it but his post today in which the heads of the Obamas were superimposed on monkey strips away the camouflage. I grew up in Jim Crow Mississippi and I know unambiguous racism when I see or hear it.