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Gray calls this attitude part of “conspicuous resilience,” conflating being temporarily displaced and inconvenienced with being oppressed and vulnerable, leading to the celebration and glorification of a recovery that mostly benefits the few.

We also saw an escalation in repression in California that was combined at the highest levels with the very open ideological glorification of violence towards the opposition.

But organizers of the “No Kings” movement say it’s a dangerous blurring of patriotism and personal glorification.

So is staging a military parade on his birthday — an abuse of troops for attention, personal glorification and exercise of his own power.

Moran went on to call Trump “a world class hater” adding, “but his hatred only a means to an end and that end is his own glorification. That’s his spiritual nourishment.”