Exactly. He wants the love of crowds, deference from peers, fame, praise, opportunities to grow his wealth, and punishing his enemies.

That's it.

Being a Republican president who pushes conspiracies & illiberal democracy is just a good way of getting what he wants.

He seems great!

If you don't teach those skills or alter the environment, kids will avoid punishment (e.g. school withdrawl), punish you back (e.g. shouting and hitting) or go into a state of learned helplessness.

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We keep assuming that disciplinarian schools work.

But the evidence is clear that more compassionate approaches work better and cause fewer negative side effects.

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Same pattern in families.

A review of studies found that punitive approaches are linked to more aggression and poorer mental health.

Warm but firm parenting predicts better outcomes.

We need policy to follow evidence, and not ideology.

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Punitive behaviour policies are not just ineffective, they're harmful.

A review by the Children and Young People’s Mental Health Coalition links zero tolerance to rising anxiety, school withdrawal and harm to pupils with SEND and from racialised groups.

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Research does not support disciplinarian approaches to education.

A NIHR review of school behaviour management found little evidence for punitive strategies and stronger support for proactive, relational ones.

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workers' rights, minority rights, feminism etc.

He's also a narcissist with a persecution complex.

He ends up on the same page as the anti-CM crowd by default.

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Before politics, Trump was a rich guy who assaulted women and operated racist policies in his businesses.

The most annoying things he encountered were taxes, regulations & his victims whining and threatening to sue him.

He is, by instinct and experience, opposed to taxes, regulations,

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It's a pretty direct continuation/reformulation of the paranoid conspiracism of the John Birch Society.

It's "reds under the beds" thinking, except now it's about Marxists hiding in schools and court rooms.

Everything they don't like is evidence of the plot.

The first thing Europe needs to protect itself from is the "alt-right" Trumpist ideology.

Yes, Russia is an important threat. But both Trump & Putin want to weaken Europe and remake it via the ideology promoted by the likes of Farage, Trump & Orban.

within American Conservativism in the 80s, so 40 years later, many can't remember things being different.

For business, it's the same as it ever was. Socialism/Marxism is taxation & regulation. It threatens their wealth. Cultural Marxism links these things to things poor people care about.

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It's all of those things.

Yes, it's for a domestic audience, but it works for the domestic audience because Weyrich, Lind, the Heritage Foundation, etc. embedded this ideology in the domestic audience through what Lind called 4th generational warfare.

The theory embedded itself

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