All the freaking out about Trump is a bit like when a person tries to quit smoking or lose weight and they are obsessed with how they keep insisting their behaviour change but it keeps doing the unwanted thing despite intellectualizing why they should behave differently. they try to confront themselves with reality, with the fact that they are hurting themselves but then poof they do the negative thing again. it’s as if thought wasn’t strong enough to make a difference. bizarre.