As George Washington prepared to leave the presidency, he issued a famous Farewell Address warning Americans about the dangers of partisanship. In cults of personality like Bolsonaro's there are "social-psychological associations that give adherents a sense of vicarious power through a heightened sense of destiny and purpose." Kent added that in cults of personality like Bolsonaro's there are "social-psychological associations …
Although Donald Trump's soon-to-be impeachment attorney Alan Dershowitz sad in 2019 that the then-president would never refuse to step down after losing an election, psychologists and other mental health experts who spoke to Salon prior to the 2020 election repeatedly made the opposite prediction. Dr. David Reiss — a psychiatrist and expert in mental fitness evaluations who contributed to the …
