{"id":5485,"date":"2016-03-04T16:19:44","date_gmt":"2016-03-04T16:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/?p=5485"},"modified":"2023-04-24T23:06:03","modified_gmt":"2023-04-24T23:06:03","slug":"fear-and-loathing-in-u-s-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/fear-and-loathing-in-u-s-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Fear and loathing in U.S. politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Fascinating in-depth look at the most interesting part of the Trump phenomenon](http:\/\/www.vox.com\/2016\/3\/1\/11127424\/trump-authoritarianism)&#8211;not the man, but the supporters.<\/p>\n<p>> What these policies share in common is an outsize fear of threats, physical and social, and, more than that, a desire to meet those threats with severe government action \u2014 with policies that are authoritarian not just in style but in actuality.<\/p>\n<p>Essentially, fear of change (especially related to physical threats) leads to desire for authoritarian leadership.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Fascinating in-depth look at the most interesting part of the Trump phenomenon](http:\/\/www.vox.com\/2016\/3\/1\/11127424\/trump-authoritarianism)&#8211;not the man, but the supporters. > What these policies share in common is an outsize fear of threats, physical and social, and, more than that, a desire to meet those threats with severe government action \u2014 with policies that are authoritarian not just&#8230;<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/fear-and-loathing-in-u-s-politics\/\">more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[373,377,378],"tags":[358],"class_list":["post-5485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leadership","category-politics-2","category-psychology-2","tag-tagged"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9wjHJ-1qt","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5485"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5486,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5485\/revisions\/5486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}