29 Mark Leibovich, “How Lindsey Graham Went from Trump Skeptic to Trump Sidekick,” The New York Times, February 25, 2019, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/25/magazine/lindsey-graham-what-happened-trump.html.
30 Lincoln Mitchell, “Commentary: Why a Republican Won’t Beat Trump in 2020,” Reuters, January 14, 2019, https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mitchell-primary-commentary/commentary-why-a-republican-wont-beat-trump-in-2020-idUSKCN1P81HN.
31 Brett Samuels, “Gap between Republican, Democratic Approval of Trump Sets Record,” The Hill, January 16, 2019, https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/425564-gap-between-republican-democratic-approval-of-trump-sets-record.
32 Russell J. Dalton, “Party Identification and Its Implications,” Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics, May 16, 2017, http://oxfordre.com/politics/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780190228637.001.0001/acrefore-9780190228637-e-72.
33 Alexander Burns and Jonathan Martin, “Michael Cohen’s Testimony Opens New Phase of Political Turbulence for Trump,” The New York Times, March 1, 2019, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/01/us/politics/michael-cohen-trump-reelection.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share.
34 Moira Donegan, “Half of White Women Continue to Vote Republican. What’s Wrong with Them?” The Guardian, November 9, 2018. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/nov/09/white-women-vote-republican-why.
35 Ibid.
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39 Jim Yardley, “Messiah Fervor for Late Rabbi Divides Many Lubavitchers,” New York Times, June 29, 1998, https://www.nytimes.com/1998/06/29/nyregion/messiah-fervor-for-late-rabbi-divides-many-lubavitchers.html.
40 Allison Kaplan Sommer, Richard C. Schneider, Elon Gilad, et al. “WATCH: Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner Visit Lubavitcher Rebbe’s Grave to Pray for Election Victory,” Haaretz, April 24, 2018, https://www.haaretz.com/world-news/watch-ivanka-jared-pray-for-victory-at-chabad-rebbe-s-grave-1.5457632.
41 Robert Philpot Toi, Matthew Lee, Susannah George, Sam Sokol, Raoul Wootliff, Jacob Magid, et al. “ ‘Putin’s Rabbi’ Said to Have Secretly Visited Iran,” The Times of Israel, accessed May 28, 2019, https://www.timesofisrael.com/putins-rabbi-said-to-have-secretly-visited-iran/.
42 “Vital Statistics,” Latest Population Statistics for Israel, accessed May 27, 2019, https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/latest-population-statistics-for-israel.
43 Jay Michaelson, “Why Is Chabad Helping Christian Extremists?” The Forward, October 26, 2015, https://forward.com/opinion/323267/why-is-chabad-helping-christian-extremists/.
44 Michael D’Antonio and Peter Eisner, The Shadow President: The Truth About Mike Pence (New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2018).
45 Amit Gvaryahu, “Lucky the Jews Didn’t Understand What Mike Pence Was Really Saying,” Haaretz, January 27, 2018, https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/lucky-the-jews-didn-t-get-what-pence-was-really-saying-1.5764424.
46 Weiyi Cai and Simone Landon, “Attacks by White Extremists Are Growing. So Are Their Connections,” The New York Times, April 3, 2019, https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/04/03/world/white-extremist-terrorism-christchurch.html.
47 “Incidents and Offenses,” FBI, November 1, 2018, https://ucr.fbi.gov/hate-crime/2017/topic-pages/incidents-and-offenses.
48 Steven Hassan, “Former Leader of White Supremacy Group and Docuseries Exposing Hate Needs to Be Aired!” Freedom of Mind Resource Center, December 16, 2018, https://freedomofmind.com/former-leader-of-white-supremacy-group-and-docuseries-exposing-hate-needs-to-be-aired/.
49 Frederick Clarkson, “The Eliminationists: How Hate Talk Radicalized the American Right,” Religion Dispatches, October 20, 2009, religiondispatches.org/ithe-eliminationists-how-hate-talk-radicalized-the-american-righti/.
50 Arno Michaelis, personal interview with Steven Hassan, January 19, 2019.
51 Brandy Zadrozney and Ben Collins, “Who Is Behind the Qanon Conspiracy? We’ve Traced It to Three People,” NBC News, accessed April 20, 2019, https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/how-three-conspiracy-theorists-took-q-sparked-qanon-n900531.
52 Henry Brean, “Suspect in Hoover Dam Standoff Writes Trump, Cites Conspiracy in Letters,” The Las Vegas Review-Journal, July 17, 2018, https://www.reviewjournal.com/crime/courts/suspect-in-hoover-dam-standoff-writes-trump-cites-conspiracy-in-letters/.
53 Anne Claire Stapleton, “Man Who Blocked Traffic on Hoover Dam Bridge Wanted Release of Government Report,” CNN, June 17, 2018, https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/15/us/hoover-dam/index.html.
54 Scott Adams, “The Truth About QAnon,” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kn_xxZrElow.
55 Ben Collins, “On Amazon, a Qanon Conspiracy Book Climbs the Charts—with an Algorithmic Push,” NBC News, accessed April 20, 2019, http://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/amazon-qanon-conspiracy-book-climbs-charts-algorithmic-push-n979181.
56 “QAnon Conspiracy Theorists Increase Their Presence at Trump Rallies,” MSNBC, http://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/qanon-conspiracy-theorists-increase-their-presence-at-trump-rallies-1468233283703.
57 Christopher Ingraham, “There Are More Guns than People in the United States, According to a New Study of Global Firearm Ownership,” The Washington Post, June 19, 2018, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2018/06/19/there-are-more-guns-than-people-in-the-united-states-according-to-a-new-study-of-global-firearm-ownership/?utm_term=.1477b0b30dcb.
58 Dave Gilson et al., “The NRA Says It Has 5 Million Members. Its Magazines Tell Another Story,” Mother Jones, June 13, 2018, https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/03/nra-membership-magazine-numbers-1/.
59 NRA TV website, http://www.nratv.com.
60 Max Greenwood, “Poll: 82 Percent Support a Ban on Bump Stocks,” The Hill, October 13, 2017, https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/355376-poll-82-support-a-ban-on-bump-stocks.
61 Donald Trump, The America We Deserve (Los Angeles: Renaissance Books, 2000), p. 102.
62 Anthony Zurcher, “How Trump Turned Against Gun Control,” BBC News, October 2, 2017, https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41478293.
63 Ed Pilkington, “Feel the Love, Feel the Hate—My Week in the Cauldron of Trump’s Wild Rallies,” The Guardian, November 1, 2018, https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/nov/01/trump-rallies-america-midterms-white-house.
CHAPTER NINE: How to Undo Mind Control
1 Mark Mazzetti and Maggie Haberman. “Trump vs. Cohen: The Breakup of a New York Relationship,” The New York Times, February 27, 2019, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/27/us/politics/trump-cohen-history.html.
2 Peter Waldman, Lizette Chapman, and Jordan Robertson, “Peter Thiel’s Data-Mining Company Is Using War on Terror Tools to Track American Citizens. The Scary Thing? Palantir Is Desperate for New Customers,” Bloomberg.com, accessed April 21, 2019, https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2018-palantir-peter-thiel/.
3 Jane Mayer, “Donald Trump’s Ghostwriter Tells All,” The New Yorker, July 31, 2017, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/07/25/donald-trumps-ghostwriter-tells-all.
4 David Weissman, “I Used to Be a Trump Troll—Until Sarah Silverman Engaged with Me,” The Forward, June 5, 2018, https://forward.com/scribe/402478/i-was-a-trump-troll/.
5 David Brooks, “Cory Booker Finds His Moment,” The New York Times, March 18, 2019, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/18/opinion/cory-booker-2020.html.
6 Eleanor Roosevelt, You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life (New York: Harper & Row, 1960).
7 Weissman, “I Used to Be a Trump Troll.”
8 Ibid.
9 Ibid.
10 David Weissman, “Why I Left Team MAGA,” The Times of Israel, accessed April 21, 2019, https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/why-i-left-te
am-maga/.
11 Scott Huver, “Sarah Silverman on Hollywood Harassment, Jewish Representation On Screen,” The Hollywood Reporter, April 20, 2019, https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/sarah-silverman-talks-hollywood-harassment-at-vulture-fest-1060203.
12 Rod Dubrow-Marshall and Linda Dubrow-Marshall, “How to Talk Someone Out of a Damaging Cult,” The Conversation, March 28, 2019. theconversation.com/how-to-talk-someone-out-of-a-damaging-cult-68930.
13 “Leah Remini on Scientology: ‘No One Is Going to Tell Me How I Need to Think,’ ” People Magazine, http://www.people.com/celebrity/leah-remini-on-scientology-no-one-is-going-to-tell-me-how-i-need-to-think/.
14 Steven Hassan, Freedom of Mind: Helping Loved Ones Leave Controlling People, Cults, and Beliefs (Newton, MA: Freedom of Mind Press, 2012), chapter 10.
CHAPTER TEN: The Future
1 Terrence McCoy, “ ‘I Don’t Know How You Got This Way,’ ” The Washington Post, February 23, 2018, http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/local/wp/2018/02/23/feature/i-dont-know-how-you-got-this-way-a-young-neo-nazi-reveals-himself-to-his-family/?utm_term=.792ec421c036.
2 Persuasive Technology Lab, “What Is Captology?” Persuasive Tech, accessed April 21, 2019, https://captology.stanford.edu/about/what-is-captology.html.
3 K.N.C. and A.L., “On Tyranny, Populism—and How Best to Respond Today,” The Economist, July 30, 2018, https://www.economist.com/open-future/2018/07/30/on-tyranny-populism-and-how-best-to-respond-today.
4 Carlin Romano, “Here There Is a Why: Primo Levi, Humanist,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, May 22, 2011, https://www.chronicle.com/article/Here-There-Is-a-Why-Primo/127574.
5 Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (New York: Tim Duggan Books, 2017).
6 Paul Krugman, “The G.O.P. Goes Full Authoritarian,” The New York Times, December 10, 2018, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/10/opinion/trump-gop-authoritarian-states-power-grab.html.
7 World Mental Health Coalition website, https://dangerouscase.org/.
8 Alan Scheflin, “Supporting Human Rights,” ICSA, accessed April 21, 2019, https://www.icsahome.com/articles/supporting-human-rights.
9 Patrick Evans, “Will Germany’s New Law Kill Free Speech Online?” BBC News, September 18, 2017, https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-41042266.
10 Cecilia Kang and Sheera Frenkel, “Facebook Says Cambridge Analytica Harvested Data of Up to 87 Million Users,” The New York Times, April 4, 2018, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/04/technology/mark-zuckerberg-testify-congress.html.
11 David Taylor, “ ‘In God We Trust’—the Bills Christian Nationalists Hope Will ‘Protect Religious Freedom,’ ” The Guardian, January 14, 2019, https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jan/14/christian-nationalists-bills-religious-freedom-project-blitz.
12 “Project Blitz,” Americans United for Separation of Church and State, accessed April 21, 2019, https://www.au.org/tags/project-blitz.
13 “Monitoring Project Blitz & Christian Nationalists,” BlitzWatch, accessed April 21, 2019, https://www.blitzwatch.org/.
14 John F. Harris et al., “Trump May Not Be Crazy, but the Rest of Us Are Getting There Fast,” Politico Magazine, October 12, 2018, https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/10/12/donald-trump-anxiety-disorder-pscyhologists-221305.
15 Rebecca Muller, “ ‘Trump Anxiety Disorder’ Is Real and on the Rise, Therapists Say,” Thrive Global, July 30, 2018, https://thriveglobal.com/stories/trump-anxiety-disorder/.
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17 “Worldwide Round-Up of Journalists Killed, Detained, Held Hostage, or Missing in 2018,” Reporters Without Borders for Freedom of Information, https://rsf.org/sites/default/files/worldwilde_round-up.pdf.
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21 Kevin Roose, “YouTube Unleashed a Conspiracy Theory Boom. Can It Be Contained?” The New York Times, February 19, 2019, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/19/technology/youtube-conspiracy-stars.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage§ion=Technology.
22 Sheera Frenkel, “Facebook to Remove Misinformation That Leads to Violence,” The New York Times, July 18, 2018, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/18/technology/facebook-to-remove-misinformation-that-leads-to-violence.html?module=inline.
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24 “Heroic Imagination Project,” accessed April 21, 2019, https://www.heroicimagination.org/.
25 Baker, Peter. “What We Know So Far from the Mueller Report,” The New York Times, April 18, 2019, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/18/us/politics/mueller-report-released-live.html.
26 Tony Schwartz, Twitter post, May 5, 2019, 4: 37 P.M., https://twitter.com/tonyschwartz/status/1125182878952898561.
27 “The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump,” C-SPAN, accessed April 21, 2019, https://www.c-span.org/video/?458919-1%2Fthe-dangerous-case-donald-trump.
28 Ibid.
INDEX
A note about the index: The pages referenced in this index refer to the page numbers in the print edition. Clicking on a page number will take you to the ebook location that corresponds to the beginning of that page in the print edition. For a comprehensive list of locations of any word or phrase, use your reading system’s search function.
Page number in italics refer to illustrations.
ABC, 137, 138
abortion, 19, 46, 152, 159, 163, 165, 180, 183, 185
absent parenting, 24–25, 62–63
Access Hollywood tape, 34, 45, 58
Ackerman, Spencer, 167
ACN, 54
Acosta, Alexander, 1, 3
Adams, Scott, 14, 88, 89, 99, 102, 191 Win Bigly, 89
Adelson, Sheldon, 13, 186
admiration, excessive, 41, 45–47
advertising, 135–36
Afghanistan, 183
Albright, Madeleine, 220 Fascism, 220
Ailes, Roger, 13, 129–32, 139, 143
Alito, Samuel, 163
allies, 59–60
alt-right, 143, 165–68, 171, 173, 188–93, 197
Amazon, 95, 197
Amin, Idi, 42
Amway, 17
anchoring, 101–2
Anti-Defamation League, 165
antisocial behavior, 51, 62
Apple, 85, 101, 133, 197
Applewhite, Marshall, 16
Apprentice, The (TV show), xi, 35, 45, 78–79, 83, 88, 104, 105, 140, 175, 200
Ardern, Jacinda, 230
Aristotle, 221 Rhetoric, 89
Aronson, Elliot, 20, 21, 114, 149
Asahara, Shoko, 16, 26
Asch, Solomon, 68–69
Asch Conformity Experiments, 68–69, 74
Assange, Julian, 146
Atack, Jon, xviii
Atlantic, The, 52, 123, 124, 128, 136, 149
Atlantic City casinos, 33
Auletta, Ken, 31
Aum Shinrikyo, 16, 26, 114, 116
authentic self, 15, 204, 205–6
authoritarianism, xiii, 4, 7, 20, 42, 50, 69
Bakker, Jim, 61
Bandler, Richard, 93–94, 116, 117
Bannon, Steve, 13, 134, 144, 166, 167, 174, 176
Barr, Roseanne, 191
Barr, William, 145–46, 156, 164–65, 200
Barrett, Rona, 37–38
Barrett, Wayne, 32
Bateson, Gregory, 93
Beck, Glenn, 128
behavior, 13–14, 79–80 control, 79–80
Behavior, Information, Thought, and Emotion (BITE). See BITE model
Benghazi attack, 202
Benkler, Yochai, 132, 228
Berg, David, 58
Bernays, Edward, 66–67, 123
Bible cults, 95, 96, 105
birther movement, 108, 110, 134
BITE model, xvi, xviii, 13–15, 19, 78–84, 158, 179, 199, 230 influence continuum, 10–11, 11, 12, 12, 13
Blacks, 67, 85, 104, 165
Blakey, Deborah Layton, 42
Blow, Charles, 15
Blumenthal, Max, 161
Boko Haram, 10
Bolton, John, 140
Bookbinder, Noah, 146
Boston Globe, 147
brain, 87, 89–90
brainwashing, 4–6, 7, 9, 73 definition of, 4, 226
how to undo, 194–217
mystery of, 6–9
study of, 4–6. See also mind control
Brainwashing of My Dad, The (documentary), xvi, 84, 129, 196
Branch Davidians, 41, 47
Breitbart, Andrew, 134
Breitbart News, xvi, 14, 133–35, 144, 167, 204
Brexit vote, 132
Brown, Dan, The DaVinci Code, 162
Brown, Derren, 98–99
Brownback, Sam, 157, 163
Brunson, Andrew, 157, 158
Buddhism, 16
bullying, xvii, 3, 26, 29–30, 50, 87, 131
bully pulpit, 122–23
Burke, Timothy, 137
Burnett, Mark, 23, 34–35, 78, 104, 140
Bush, Billy, 34
Bush, George H. W., 130, 135, 139, 164
Bush, George W., 139, 149
Bush, Jeb, xii, 102, 110
Butina, Marina, 154
Cacioppo, J. T., 113
Cai, Weiyi, 188
Cambridge Analytica, 223
Canada, 73
Capitol Ministries, 159–60, 183
card stacking, 125
Carnegie, Dale, 28, 88 How to Win Friends and Influence People, 88
Carson, Ben, 156
casinos, Trump, 33, 34, 148
Castellano, Paul, 32
Castro, Fidel, 71
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