America is
suffering from PTSD. The Reckoning diagnoses its core causes and helps begin
the healing process.
For four
years, Donald J Trump inflicted an onslaught of overlapping and interconnected
traumas upon the American people, targeting anyone he perceived as being an
'other' or an enemy. Women were discounted and derided, the sick were dismissed
as weak and unworthy of help, immigrants and minorities were demonised and
discriminated against and money was elevated above all else. In short, he
transformed America into a macro version of his malignantly dysfunctional
family.
How can
Americans make sense of the degree to which their institutions and leaders have
let them down? How can they negotiate a world in which all sense of safety and
justice seems to have been destroyed? How can they - as individuals and as a
nation - confront, process and overcome this loss of trust and the ways they
have been forever altered by chaos, division and cruelty? And when the dust
finally settles, how can they begin to heal, in the midst of ongoing health and
economic crises and the greatest political divide since the Civil War?
Mary L
Trump is uniquely positioned to answer these difficult questions. She holds a
PhD in clinical psychology specialising in trauma, has herself been diagnosed
with post-traumatic stress disorder and happens to be Donald J Trump's only
niece. In The Reckoning, she applies her unique expertise to the task of
helping Americans confront an all-encompassing trauma, one that has taken an
immense toll on their nation's health and well-being.
A new
leader alone cannot fix the situation. Donald J Trump is only the latest
symptom of a disease that has existed within the body politic since America's
inception - from the original sin of slavery through its population's
unceasing, organised commitment to inequality. An enormous amount of healing
must be done to rebuild the lives of Americans, their faith in leadership and
their hope for their nation. It starts with The Reckoning.
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