The Donald appears to be a Red-hot Lover through and through. You can see that he does what is right and true to him, no matter about the firestorm it causes. As a matter of fact, he almost looks like he revels in the angst, drama and chaos that fill his life and that of his country. What better way is there to get constant attention? Just think of his Muslim ban, the Mexican wall and saying the press is the enemy of the people. No matter what happens with any of this, he just keeps forging ahead, with blinders on. If he feels like a fool, it doesn’t show; we don’t see anything that looks like concern about the large portion of the population that scorns him. Of course, this is his appeal to his supporters: He carves out his own goals in his own reality and relentlessly pursues…
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President Trump’s supporters and detractors agree on something: He is an extraordinary human. In spite of intense pressure to stop providing his personal thoughts and feelings to a universal audience, he maintains his license to do so. He’s shown the world that he can scoot by limits, barriers and obstacles. And he perpetually creates the feelings that go with being on a pinnacle or turning point: they include hope, relief, distress and alarm. None of this is an accident. It comes from a lifetime of honing his passion into a force to be reckoned with. The Donald has the full spectrum of attributes that come from being governed by passion: He has a delicate, intuitive sense and powerful, uncontrollable emotions. He appears to instinctively avoid that which is passionless because it’s empty and meaningless to him. Basically, if he doesn’t feel for it, he doesn’t care about it. When you’re…
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Wendy Brown’s article was published on www.brazenwoman.com. Here is the link.
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Lisa Haselton interviewed Wendy Brown on ‘The Six Passions of the Red-hot Lover’ on February 3rd. Here’s the link.
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Wendy Brown was interviewed for this article. It appeared in September 2016. Read the article here.
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