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In John 5, Jesus asked a paralyzed man at Bethesda pool, "Do you want to get well?" I worry that hostility and competitive escalation are being normalized and deviance is being defined down. But "this is not normal" is just another form of hostile confrontation, which is useless against Trump and Trump supporters, because they're the masters of it. Plus, his non-normalcy is his selling point, which is heartbreaking, because he's actually very normal: the outsider who isn't an outsider at all, but is out to enrich himself. If people had a bit more historical perspective, they could see more clearly how unconvincing his veneer is, but they're watching a movie. And not everyone wants to get well; sometimes nursing a grievance generates enough enthusiasm and energy to keep people going. Cults and addictions are, in some sense, hurts that people don't want healed. There've been public health campaigns that set out to equip entire communities to weed out an addiction, and maybe that's the right approach. But public
