The Mascot, the Emotional Center, and the Blueprint with Nick Carmody

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🗓️ 6 July 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Host Reed Galen is joined by Nick Carmody (psychotherapist, lawyer, and Executive Board Member for the World Mental Health Coalition) to discuss from a psychological perspective, the evolution of the GOP and how its transforming from a cult of personality into a cult of tribe. If Donald Trump, Tucker Carlson, and Steve Bannon are the three pillars of the Republican party, how will they interact with each other in the near-future, and who will inevitably be the last man standing? Plus, the exponentially increasing political violence in our nation and a look back on key moments in the January 6th hearings. To read more from Nick Carmody, you can follow him on Twitter, @Nick_Carmody and visit patreon.com/NickCarmody.

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody. Before we get started, I just want to encourage everyone here. Watch the select
0:05.8	committee on January 6th hearings. I think it is an important historical record of one of the
0:12.0	worst days in our country's history. And I think it's important that you are able to see for
0:16.3	yourselves just what happened on that day. Who was responsible and that you can share that information
0:22.4	with your friends and your family and your colleagues when they say none of it matters. Every
0:27.5	bit of it matters. I hope you'll tune in. I hope you'll find all of our content. Ask us questions.
0:33.2	And now on with the show.
0:42.9	Welcome back to the Lincoln Project. I'm your host, Reed Gailan. Today, I'm excited to welcome
0:48.7	back Nick Carmody, psychotherapist, lawyer, and executive board member of the World Mental Health
0:54.2	Coalition. As documented in his first appearance on the podcast last year, Nick is the survivor of
0:59.3	not one but two traumatic brain injuries. And it was the resulting changes he experienced and the
1:04.4	need to understand these changes that motivated him to go back to school and work in the psychology field.
1:10.0	In addition to his work in psychotherapy, he's written extensively on the psychology of Donald
1:14.4	Trump, how the GOP transformed into the party of Donald Trump, as well as into the mind of dictators.
1:20.2	Today, he's coming to us from Denver, Colorado, where he maintains his private practice. Nick,
1:25.4	welcome back. I read, thank you for having me. So today, I want to talk about some of the
1:30.2	revelations from the January 6th hearings, as well as your outlook for what the future of our
1:34.5	country holds. But before that, I want to talk about how the cult of Donald Trump and the GOP
1:39.2	is evolving. So you've written extensively on Donald Trump and his hold on the Republican party.
1:45.8	But I would say that the movement is evolving. And what I mean by that is what we see politically,
1:52.4	there are three separate silos within the Republican party now. There's the sort of 25 to 30 percent
1:59.3	rump what I would call establishment Republicans like I used to be. Then there's the 35 or 40 percent
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