The Psychology of Trump Contagion: An Existential Danger to American Democracy and All Humankind Paperback – September 2, 2024

Why is Donald Trump so popular? How has he amassed such a following, despite his deadly Covid-19 mismanagement, a violent insurrection against the government, and a felony conviction, with others likely to come? Specializing in treating violent offenders and advising on violence prevention programming for prisons, communities, governments, and international organizations, Dr. Bandy X. Lee explains the phenomenon of “Trump Contagion” as no other.Dr. Lee’s 2017 New York Times bestseller, The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President, was so unexpectedly successful, it took one of the Big Five publishers five weeks of repeat printings to catch up with the demand! Even White House Chief of Staff John Kelly is reported to have used it as an “owner’s manual” for dealing with Donald Trump, which may have prevented a nuclear war with North Korea. Her second book on Trump, Profile of a Nation: Trump’s Mind, America’s Soul, predicted in 2020 a violent insurrection and “a presidency that will not end with the loss of an election.” Her warnings were so accurate, Congress members messaged her from the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, “You are vindicated!” and a major Mother Jones article was subtitled, “The vindication of Bandy Lee.”But Dr. Lee says it is not over. She brings her prescience to a third book, The Psychology of Trump Contagion: An Existential Danger to American Democracy and All Humankind, and her warnings are stark: she explains the rise of fascism, which she calls, “not a political ideology but mental pathology in politics.” No one has elucidated “the dangerous case of Donald Trump” so accurately and so early as Dr. Lee, and similarly no one will illustrate “the more dangerous case of Donald Trump,” from his deterioration to his spread of symptoms across the culture at large, as Dr. Lee in her new book! Read more