What did Dr. Bandy Lee mean by this Tweet?

[kentuck]

"Donald Trump displayed a “state of mind that had no contact with reality,” according to the House Speaker. Loss of touch with reality is a severe mental health condition that risks becoming an epidemic to those who are (mentally) exposed."

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Is it contagious? This is scary.

[Iliyah]

1. His base . . .

[Mike 03]

2. His followers. Dr. Jerrold Post explained that the charismatic leader and the followers create

eachother. His disease is theirs, but also vice versa. They are 100% susceptible to virtually anything he says, and then they literally spread it around (social media, social contacts, etc..).

EDIT: Post has a book called "Dangerous Charisma" and that is where he describes his theory of cult leader/follower mirroring.

[Roland99]

3. Cult mindset

[abqtommy]

6. I agree. Cultism spreads by contagion.

[mopinko]

4. group psychosis.

she has been talking about this for a while now, esp since impeachment.
the only people left are cuckoo too.

[Tanuki]

5. Think about the Jim Jones cult, or the followers of the two lunatics at the

time of the Hale-Bopp comet.

[abqtommy]

7. +100