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I Was on I’ve Had It. Here’s Everything We Talked About.

I sat down with Jennifer Welch on I’ve Had It Podcast & IHIP News and we went deep.

Trump’s Obama obsession. Latent homophobia in the MAGA movement. Authoritarian religion as a pipeline to cult followership. The psychological wage of whiteness. The Dark Tetrad. All of it.

If you missed it, here is the full breakdown.

Why Trump Cannot Stop Saying Barack Hussein Obama’s Name

We opened with a clip of Trump using Obama’s full name in front of a group of children. Emphasizing it. Savoring it.

This is not random. This is not dementia. This is scapegoating operating exactly as designed.

Trump uses Obama as a proxy. When he attacks Obama, he is signaling to his base who the enemy is. And that enemy is not just one man. It is everything Obama represents. Black excellence. Intellectual credibility. Dignity in the highest office in the land.

But there is a deeper psychological layer underneath it.

W.E.B. Du Bois identified what he called the psychological wage of whiteness. For generations, poor white Americans were given a psychological consolation prize. You may be broke. You may have nothing. But you are white. And that means you are better than your black neighbor who is just as broke as you are.

That wage kept poor white people from organizing with poor black people around shared economic interests. It was a tool of division that served the wealthy class perfectly.

When Barack Obama became president, that wage collapsed.

You could no longer tell a poor white conservative that they were superior to Black Americans when a Black man held the highest office in the land. The whole permission structure broke.

That is why they go crazy for Obama. That is why Trump goes crazy for Obama. And that is why Megyn Kelly said out loud on her podcast that they have not felt the same since Obama was president. She said the quiet part loud.

Trump knows he can never be Obama. Obama was a statesman. He was measured, brilliant, and composed. Trump walks around carrying a bucket of shame and humiliation every single day because he knows it too. So he attacks. Over and over. Because that is what his father Fred Trump installed in him. You are a winner. Winners attack. Winners never admit they are wrong.

It broke him. And now he points that broken psychology at the one man he knows he could never be.

The Dark Tetrad and the Fanatics Who Will Never Leave

Jennifer asked about the hardcore MAGA base. The ones who will not leave no matter what. The ones who would watch him shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and cheer.

From my research, the fanatical core of Trump’s base scores extremely high across four dark psychological traits. Psychologists call this the Dark Tetrad.

Narcissism. Machiavellianism. Psychopathy. Everyday sadism.

These are not people with clinical diagnoses. They are people with extremely high trait levels across all four dimensions. And the one thing that unites them is that they cannot be wrong. They were like this before Trump. They found a home in Trump.

People with these trait combinations will burn their own lives down before they admit they made a mistake. That is not a metaphor. That is what the research shows. They will destroy relationships, finances, and futures rather than concede they were conned.

My estimate is that 20 to 25 million of Trump’s followers fall into this category. They are not persuadable. They will only shift when the cult starts hurting them personally. Gas prices. Grocery bills. Tariffs. That is the only language that reaches them.

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