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As a Former Cult Member, I Understand Fervent Female Trump Supporters
When you’re brainwashed, logic isn’t part of the equation
To help a novice develop a Buddha-like nature, a monk will pose a paradoxical question — “When one can do nothing, what can one do?” — that the rational mind can’t answer. These questions are called Zen kōans.
We, as a country, are living a Zen kōan. Our president, the molester-in-chief, has been accused of sexual misconduct by at least 22 women. His friends — Roger Ailes, Robert Kraft, and Jeffrey Epstein, to name a few — are men accused of sexual assault. His appointees to government positions fit the same bill. More than 80% of American women have been sexually assaulted or harassed, and yet a huge swath of them continue to support him and his cronies. Like, with a fervor.
The rational mind assumes that any woman, assaulted or not, would reject a man who says he would date his own daughter and be repulsed by men who are repeatedly accused of violating women. But then, who’s to say Trump’s supporters are rational?
As a sexual violence survivor myself, I deeply understand the male-female power dynamic. I understand it like a prey animal: I sense when a man is being creepy. I get it when a woman is too afraid, ashamed, or confused to report what happened to…
