Pop diagnosis no panacea to American woes

April 28, 2026

Everyone today it seems is a psychologist spouting pop diagnosis for a startling number of conditions with no face to face engagement with the patient.

The language of pop diagnosis is also I feel very damaging for those in the general community who are battling similar conditions giving social license for others to run quasi medical commentaries on others.

In the case of Trump it would make an hilarious sit/com if it wasn’t so damn serious. Americans should be perhaps examining a broader more uncomfortable truth of how they came to deliver this unique disaster on themselves and the world and how all the checks and balances built into their much vaunted constitution have failed them at every step. Considering Trump’s every move was outlined in Project 25 he was STILL voted in as President.

I’m no psychologist but after this crisis which will surely pass as all 87 year olds do I prescribe a period of deep introspection for all Americans about how they can rebuild their Constitutional, socio-political life and world engagement after a prolonged and unprecedented disruption.