What Freud Can Teach Us About Trump and His Christian Supporters

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That guilt — whether over the privilege into which he was born, or from a sense of inferiority over never meeting parental expectations, or survivor’s guilt for outliving his brother Fred whose alcoholism led to an early death at 42 — is what I believe has motivated Donald Trump for much of his life.

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An image of the November 2026 issue of Sojourners, titled "Face to Face." It features George Lakey on the cover
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