A Freudian would say that the reflecting pool is a symbolic birth canal that is ready to birth liberals into independence and maturity. They are horrified by that possibility. Trump is their symbolic mother, and his efforts to expel them into independent thinking through the symbolic birth canal feel to them like an expulsion from a warm, murky, concealing paradise of gestation into the cruelly transparent clarity of adulthood. They’re trying to destroy the birth canal to prevent this expulsion.
I’m joking, of course, but it’s undeniable that the roots of the liberals’ feelings for Trump are not political but psychological. For a long time, I thought that he was their symbolic daddy. I was wrong. He is their symbolic mommy. Everything begins to make sense when you see it that way.
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