"What political scientists describe as affective/negative polarization describes how political disagreements are increasingly existential value judgments where 'the other side' is not just wrong but evil. In such an environment, changing one’s mind, by, for example, deciding to no longer support Trump’s policies, becomes less likely."

#ChaunceyDeVega, 2025

https://www.salon.com/2025/03/27/sadopolitics-why-maga-clings-more-to-the-more-his-policies-hurt-them/

#HatTip to @Some_Emo_Chick for the link.

@DebR. I know. One of the few is #psychologist, Dr. John Gartner. He has done several interviews with #Salon's #ChaunceyDeVega. Have you seen any of them? If not, here's one:

https://www.salon.com/2024/02/23/dr-john-gartner-on-a-tale-of-two-brains-bidens-brain-is-aging-brain-is-dementing/

@rbreich. #ChaunceyDeVega and #JohnGartner (#psychologist and former #professor at #JohnsHopkins) have discussed #Trump's #brain (and #Biden's) on the pages of #Salon. #Gartner has also circulated a petition -- calling Trump mentally ill - that has over 70,000 signatures from the mental health professional community.

https://www.salon.com/2024/02/23/dr-john-gartner-on-a-tale-of-two-brains-bidens-brain-is-aging-brain-is-dementing/

@jeffjarvis. I canceled my #Post subscription after one too many bothsides articles. However, if you have a moment and a spare gift article, would you please post it? #Brain health, specifically #dementia, is a profoundly important issue to me (my father died of #early-onset #Alzheimer's). I post #ChaunceyDeVega's #Salon pieces, esp. those with #Dr.JohnGartner whenever he covers this issue and how #doctors and #neurologists are speaking out, sometimes. Thank you.

@JamesGleick. And #psychologist and former professor at Johns Hopkins, JohnGartner who discusses what he calls #Trump's "probably dementia" with Salon's #ChaunceyDeVega. Their conversations are must-reads. Here is one example. https://www.salon.com/2024/02/23/dr-john-gartner-on-a-tale-of-two-brains-bidens-brain-is-aging-brain-is-dementing/

@Alan. His vocabulary has contracted over the years. As #psychologist and former #professor at #JohnsHopkins has said, repeatedly in illuminating conversations with #Salon's #ChaunceyDevega, #Trump appears to be suffering from "probable #dementia."

https://www.statnews.com/2017/05/23/donald-trump-speaking-style-interviews/

@GottaLaff. #JohnGartner's conversations with #ChaunceyDevega are must-reads on the subject of #Trump and what the #psychologist and former #professor at #JohnsHopkins, calls "probable #dementia." Here is one of the columns:

https://www.salon.com/2024/02/23/dr-john-gartner-on-a-tale-of-two-brains-bidens-brain-is-aging-brain-is-dementing/

@gtconway3. And with enormous gratitude to #Salon's #ChaunceyDeVega's conversations with #Dr.JohnGartner.

@gtconway3. Also read #ChaunceyDevega in conversations with #Dr.JohnGartener in #Salon. For example: https://www.salon.com/2024/03/26/hastening-his-deterioration-dr-john-gartner-on-impact-of-trials-on-trumps-fragile-brain/

In a deeply existential way, #memory is on the ballot, not only for the candidates (see #JohnGartner's work with #ChaunceyDeVega in #Salon, where he distinguishes between #Trump's cognitive #neurodegeneration, as a function of likely brain disease, and #Biden's occasional, typical #memory issues given his age), but for the nation. If some people aren't remembering the cruelty & awfulness of #Trump's presidency, the #media must remind them/be our memory. Also, talk to some people who do remember.

@Nonilex. #ChaunceyDeVega has been covering this essential issue #Salon, with the courageous assistance of #psychologist, #Dr.JohnGartner..