The Leader Conveys  and Fulfills the Desires of the People
                                                 Richard A. Koenigsberg

Abstract: All the nonsense about "diagnosing" Donald Trump: calling him a "malignant narcissist," for example: The delusion that giving identifying or naming Trump's pathology--somehow constitutes an "explanation."

I understand 70 million people voted for Trump in the recent election. The question is WHAT WAS TRUMP SAYING AND/OR DOING THAT APPEALED TO SO MANY PEOPLE? 

I've analyzed Hitler for years. There are things one might say about Hitler's "personality." However, the central question is: What was Hitler saying--that the German people found so appealing?

He was the most popular political leader of the 20th Century.

The will to vote for or support a leader is based on what the words he utters (and the way he moves when he utters these words).

One may hypothesize that words spoken by a sucessful leader articulate a PHANTASY that appeals to members of his audience. Something the leader says FULFILLS PEOPLES' DESIRES.

Norman O. Brown said: "The chorus is the author." Trump may be a narcissistic or psychopath or may be suffering from a borderline personality disorder. He may be possessed by paranoid delusions.

These words EXPLAIN NOTHING.

Politics is interaction between a leader and his constituents. The leader is the "chosen one:" chosen by the people to fulfill their desires.

Ernst Rudolf Huber

The Leader is the Bearer of the Collective Will

Nazi political theorist Ernst Rudolf Huber stated that the leader is the bearer of the "collective will of the people.” In the will of the leader, Huber said, the “will of the people is realized.”

Hitler’s will was not the “subjective will of a single man.” Rather, the collective national will was embodied within Hitler. A people’s collective will, Huber explained, is rooted in the “political idea which is given to a people.” The political idea is present in the people, but the Führer “raises it to consciousness and discloses it.”

By “disclosing” a people’s political idea—a leader brings into consciousness that which had been unconscious. The leader brings forth—makes manifest—ideas and desires that had been latent within a people. His ideology reveals and crystallizes a people’s shared fantasies.

The leader invents images, metaphors and phrases to convey these fantasies. He processes his own fantasies and those of his people—and “returns” information to his audience in the form of a societal discourse.

By virtue of being transformed into a societal discourse, energies and passions bound to unconscious fantasies are released for action. The ideology transforms latent desires and fantasies into the “collective will” to act.