Mental Anatomy of the MAGA Hat Powder Keg

How an inner script of victimization is used to justify political violence.

Photoshopped by author from MAGA hat photo by Natilyn Hicks (Aubrey Hicks Photography) on Unsplash and other creative commons images that require no attribution

In the cycle of abuse, the victimizer commonly apologizes after an assault, using gifts and kind gestures to usher in a honeymoon phase of relative peace which becomes increasingly uneasy as tensions build towards the next inevitable incident. As stormclouds gather…