The outlines of a strategic approach that President Trump uses to maintain and deepen loyalty among his supporters by creating various emotional “basins.” These include grievance, persecution, dominance, anti-elite sentiment, identity fusion, whataboutism, apocalyptic fears, and entertainment. Each basin reinforces loyalty, making it difficult for supporters to disengage without feeling like they have betrayed a cause.
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From Affirmation to Delusion
Click here to see a large version of this image. How “I understand you” becomes “It’s us against the world.” Brooke: Previously, we created two posts. One was a review of literature called Sycophantic Chatbots Cause Delusional Spiraling and the other was called Basins: How Personas Are Implemented in a Large Language Model? Although theContinue reading “From Affirmation to Delusion”
