this book. And it is pretty good. I recommend it.
Still, the author has to show he’s not one of THOSE. You know, the back-woodsey, knuckle-headed Trump supporters.
Yet HE is the one who comes off as a bit of an intellectual lightweight, at least in this area. He should have just stayed with his subject. But he has insisted on revealing himself to be a bit short on knowledge in this area.
Justin, there is a real difference between a delusion and a bizarre delusion. I may believe I need the house to be clean with delusional intensity. Or that an emblem actually turns into the body of Christ at Communion. Sure, maybe those beliefs are wrong, but they are not bizarre beliefs. Nor are they indicative of mental illness.
On the other hand, if I believe that the CIA has joined up with space aliens to put a chip in my brain and through that chip they monitor my thoughts and control my behavior, that is a BIZARRE delusion. And that is a whole different animal.
So believing that Trump was cheated in 2020 may (or may not) be correct. But it is not bizarrely delusional in any sense of the word. You may or may not think it is true, but it’s possible—it is not a bizarre delusion.
So the bizarreness is an issue, here. And the author totally ignores that. It may or may not be true that Trump had the election stolen from him. But it is not bizarre to think that, like thinking that men can turn into women or vice-versa or that monkeys are gonna fly out my butt would be.