DONALD TRUMP'S IMMUNOLOGICAL FANTASY Donald Trump's ideology grows out of an immunological fantasy. To maintain the nation’s boundaries, a wall must be constructed to prevent “foreign elements” from entering and contaminating the nation. MAGA means refusal to be penetrated. The President equates his own body with the American body politic. The danger is that “porous boundaries” allow alien elements to seep into the body politic and to permanently reside within this body, infecting Trump's body and the bodies of other Americans.

The immune system identifies cells that “belong” to the body—in contrast to "foreign" cells that do not belong. Alien cells must be rejected and destroyed.

Nation-states, we may suggested, are social constructions based on the model of the immune system. Like human bodies, national bodies are created with sharply defined boundaries. The contemporary world is constituted by "nations," each separated other the other by a boundary. 

Nations, like bodies, are imagined to be besieged or threatened by foreign or enemy elements. The imperiled nation must “continuously work to quell alien invaders” (Martin, 1999).

When a nation feels its boundaries are porous, it may seek to create walls to prevent alien or foreign cells from entering. Nationalism builds upon an immunological fantasy. 

Hitler and the Nazis treated the German nation as a body with an immune system recognizing what was “self” and rejecting what was “not-self.” Identifying Jews as foreign or not-self cells within the German body politic, the national immune system acted—could not do otherwise--but to “reject” or destroy these alien entities.

From the begin of his Presidency in 2016 to this very day--Donald Trump's ideology (and being) seems to revolve around an immunological fantasy. Trump frames this as a "legal" issue. But the passion with which he invests this issue grows out of his personal psychology. 

To maintain the nation’s boundaries, illegal immigrants (foreign cells) must be removed (ejected). A gigantic wall must be constructed to prevent foreign cells from penetrating into the body politic. 

Donald Trump equates his own body with the American body and apparently many other Americans do so as well. These Americans bind their existence to a specific “geographic space” (Howard Stein, 2013). The danger is that these "alien cells" will act to destroy the American body politic. Beneath the political issue lies a profound psychological issue. "Foreign cells" provoke profound anxiety and paranoid rage.

It seems that this is the only consistent theme underlying Trump's chaotic and ever-changing thought processes: paranoid rage. This paranoid rage begins with illegal immigrants, but now seems to be extending to other human beings and political entities. 

Pundits comment on his policies, which are confusing, constantly changing and difficult to decipher.

It might be more productive to examine the "psychotic core,"