B X Lee -- How Trump Contagion Breaks Down Norms
How Trump Contagion Breaks Down Norms and How a New Level of Consciousness is Needed to Stop It Live Interview on the Weekend Show, Link Below, at 8 p.m. EDT / 5 p.m. PDT Bandy X. Lee 5 hours ago Long-time Salon reporter Chauncey DeVega interviewed me about the planned and then unplanned livestream of a public execution : Bandy Lee … shared her concerns about Trump’s apparently intensifying attraction to violence and what she sees as his worsening pathology: Live-streamed public executions by firing squads may seem like shocking new violence, but they are the exact extension of the president’s dangerous mindset we have been warning against. The lack of love in childhood that had translated into the need for adulation of crowds, has now transformed into the need to instill fear and terror…. The performative spectacle of power will also dismantle norms by demonstrating very graphically that it can subvert any existing order, as well as strip its “victims” of any dignity…. It traumatizes...
