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When the president continues to promote unproven but dangerous medications such as hydroxychloroquine, the physical effects—even cardiac arrest—are not our greatest concern.  A greater concern is the milieu he creates where his will wins over science and facts, and what he can do with this increasingly unlimited power.  His method is classic psychological abuse: “I do not care what the reality is.  I am going to push my will on you, and you are going to accept it, even if it is to your death.”  He does this to the media, Congress members, his followers, and the general public.  Soon, it will become: “I do not care what the election laws are.  I am going to push my agenda on you, and you are going to accept it, even if it is to the country’s demise.”  And the more the country has been abused, the more it will accept this without condition.

The more horrific the reality—in other words, the fact that our own president, who is supposed to protect us, caused the deaths of more Americans than all the recent wars and terrorist attacks combined, in a manner that was wholly avoidable—the more difficult it will be to accept the truth.  His followers are the first to acquiesce to his abuse, and hence will only “double down” in their support.  It is hard enough for the healthiest, most detached and analytical mind to accept such a letdown.  It is much harder when your deprivation and emotional needs bonded you to him in the first place, and that the savior who promised to defend “the forgotten man and forgotten woman,” is actually their predator, can simply be too painful a fact.  So the worse the reality becomes, the less likely Donald Trump’s supporters are to blame him.  As hard as it seems, the time to intervene is still now—and while the trauma will cause his followers to revolt, it will still be far less than the trauma of allowing this to go on.

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- Trump’s Pandemic Is Our Cuban Missile Crisis