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America Is Attempting to Exit an Abusive Relationship
More than 70 percent of domestic homicides occur shortly after the woman leaves her abusive partner. The act of leaving puts her at much higher risk than at any other moment in their relationship. https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/12/trump-america-abusive-relationship-exit.html
More than 70 percent of domestic homicides occur shortly after the woman leaves her abusive partner. The act of leaving puts her at much higher risk than at any other moment in their relationship. https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/12/trump-america-abusive-relationship-exit.html
For Trump and his supporters, losing their last-gasp effort to overturn the election results in the courts has released the same rage, the same sense of impossible, inconceivable loss of face, of domination and command, that drives men to kill their girlfriends and wives.
They are pushed by the same impulse to do whatever it may take to recapture that command, power, and control—and just like for so many domestic abusers, for some of Trump’s most fervent supporters, “whatever it may take” might include violence.
This has had counterterrorism officials on alert. The FBI’s former assistant director for counterintelligence, Frank Figliuzzi, warned last week that America is now witnessing, in real time, the trajectory of radicalization. The probability of an attack is increasing as a result.
We're witnessing frantic rage and fury inspired by a man who clings desperately to a power he does not possess, to a fantasy he cannot bear to recognize has no substance. He is devastated by the rejection, the humiliation not only of losing an election but of coming in 2nd place.
The dynamic, weeks after the contest should have been over, was legally considered finished, and should have been resolved—is familiar to women who are well aware that the abusive relationship rarely ends with a restraining order, a divorce decree, or even a new legal residence.
This last act of Donald Trump—his refusal to admit defeat, to leave the stage, to recognize that he is not the chosen one—is deeply familiar to women who have escaped from an abuser. As his authority dwindles, the threats and unreality grow. https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/12/trump-america-abusive-relationship-exit.html
