''Since the Republican primaries of 2015-16, some people have turned to
psychiatry in an effort to locate the irrational wellsprings of Trump’s
victory, but so far little progress has been made. This is because most
of the effort has gone into analysing Trump, who is often described as
suffering from ‘narcissistic personality disorder’. Not only are such
diagnoses, made from a distance, implausible; they also fail to address a
more important question: the nature of Trump’s appeal. Constituting
something close to a third of the electorate, his followers form an
intensely loyal and, psychologically, tight-knit band. They are
impervious to liberal or progressive criticisms of Trump or his
policies. On the contrary, their loyalty thrives on anti-Trump
arguments, and digs in deeper..''
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