Show threadStrypeyMar 28, 2025

"What political scientists describe as affective/negative polarization describes how political disagreements are increasingly existential value judgments where 'the other side' is not just wrong but evil. In such an environment, changing one’s mind, by, for example, deciding to no longer support Trump’s policies, becomes less likely."

#ChaunceyDeVega, 2025

https://www.salon.com/2025/03/27/sadopolitics-why-maga-clings-more-to-the-more-his-policies-hurt-them/

#HatTip to @Some_Emo_Chick for the link.

How psychology helps to explain why Trump’s followers will not abandon him

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Show thread(((Cindy Weinstein)))Jul 10, 2024

@DebR. I know. One of the few is #psychologist, Dr. John Gartner. He has done several interviews with #Salon's #ChaunceyDeVega. Have you seen any of them? If not, here's one:

https://www.salon.com/2024/02/23/dr-john-gartner-on-a-tale-of-two-brains-bidens-brain-is-aging-brain-is-dementing/

Dr. John Gartner on a tale of two brains: "Biden's brain is aging. Trump's brain is dementing" - Salon.com

Trump, Gartner says, relies on "phonemic paraphasias" that make clear his failing mental acuity

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Show thread(((Cindy Weinstein)))Jul 8, 2024

@rbreich. #ChaunceyDeVega and #JohnGartner (#psychologist and former #professor at #JohnsHopkins) have discussed #Trump's #brain (and #Biden's) on the pages of #Salon. #Gartner has also circulated a petition -- calling Trump mentally ill - that has over 70,000 signatures from the mental health professional community.

https://www.salon.com/2024/02/23/dr-john-gartner-on-a-tale-of-two-brains-bidens-brain-is-aging-brain-is-dementing/

Dr. John Gartner on a tale of two brains: "Biden's brain is aging. Trump's brain is dementing" - Salon.com

Trump, Gartner says, relies on "phonemic paraphasias" that make clear his failing mental acuity

Salon.com
Show thread(((Cindy Weinstein)))May 18, 2024
@jeffjarvis. I canceled my #Post subscription after one too many bothsides articles. However, if you have a moment and a spare gift article, would you please post it? #Brain health, specifically #dementia, is a profoundly important issue to me (my father died of #early-onset #Alzheimer's). I post #ChaunceyDeVega's #Salon pieces, esp. those with #Dr.JohnGartner whenever he covers this issue and how #doctors and #neurologists are speaking out, sometimes. Thank you.
(((Cindy Weinstein)))May 1, 2024

@chrisg. Thank you for posting this. Also, #ChaunceyDeVega's conversations with #Dr.Gartner about what he calls #Trump's "probably dementia" are must-reads. Here is one example.

https://www.salon.com/2024/03/07/dr-john-gartner-the-world-is-watching-a-fundamental-breakdown-in-trumps-ability-to-use-language/

Trump should "immediately cease running for president": Doctors on evidence of "underlying brain damage"

Beyond aging, experts tell Salon, Trump is now in the "realm of phonemic paraphasia"

Salon.com
(((Cindy Weinstein)))Apr 30, 2024

When #psychologist and former professor at #JohnsHopkinsUniversity, #Dr. JohnGartner, talks to #Salon's #ChaunceyDevega about #Trump's "probable #dementia," these are some of the possible, more specific diagnoses. Here is one of their conversations about what the #doctor calls #Trump's "#cognitive challenges."

https://www.salon.com/2024/03/26/hastening-his-deterioration-dr-john-gartner-on-impact-of-trials-on-trumps-fragile-brain/

"Hastening his deterioration": Dr. John Gartner on impact of court trials on "Trump’s fragile brain" - Salon.com

"He is cognitively weak and closer than you might think to being completely disabled"

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Show thread(((Cindy Weinstein)))Apr 29, 2024
@JamesGleick. And #psychologist and former professor at Johns Hopkins, JohnGartner who discusses what he calls #Trump's "probably dementia" with Salon's #ChaunceyDeVega. Their conversations are must-reads. Here is one example. https://www.salon.com/2024/02/23/dr-john-gartner-on-a-tale-of-two-brains-bidens-brain-is-aging-brain-is-dementing/
Dr. John Gartner on a tale of two brains: "Biden's brain is aging. Trump's brain is dementing" - Salon.com

Trump, Gartner says, relies on "phonemic paraphasias" that make clear his failing mental acuity

Salon.com
Show thread(((Cindy Weinstein)))Apr 28, 2024

@Alan. His vocabulary has contracted over the years. As #psychologist and former #professor at #JohnsHopkins has said, repeatedly in illuminating conversations with #Salon's #ChaunceyDevega, #Trump appears to be suffering from "probable #dementia."

https://www.statnews.com/2017/05/23/donald-trump-speaking-style-interviews/

Trump wasn’t always so linguistically challenged. What could explain the change?

STAT asked experts to compare Trump's speech from decades ago to that in 2017. All noticed deterioration, which may signal changes in Trump's brain health.

STAT
Show thread(((Cindy Weinstein)))Apr 28, 2024

@GottaLaff. #JohnGartner's conversations with #ChaunceyDevega are must-reads on the subject of #Trump and what the #psychologist and former #professor at #JohnsHopkins, calls "probable #dementia." Here is one of the columns:

https://www.salon.com/2024/02/23/dr-john-gartner-on-a-tale-of-two-brains-bidens-brain-is-aging-brain-is-dementing/

Dr. John Gartner on a tale of two brains: "Biden's brain is aging. Trump's brain is dementing" - Salon.com

Trump, Gartner says, relies on "phonemic paraphasias" that make clear his failing mental acuity

Salon.com
Show thread(((Cindy Weinstein)))Apr 15, 2024
@gtconway3. And with enormous gratitude to #Salon's #ChaunceyDeVega's conversations with #Dr.JohnGartner.