IMI improvements of my 2017 blog “Educating Trump”
From the standpoint of Formal Theory, Trump’s current difficulties — legal, reputational, psychological — can be reframed as a Reversal phase in his six-role emotional process. He has reached the inflection point between defensive dominance and the opportunity for compromise and reform.
1. Conceptual Intervention
Offer leaders like Trump not “therapy” but scientific education:
“Mr. Trump, your power style reflects a natural law of energy transformation. The same aggressiveness that creates fear/paranoia can, when understood, be redirected toward restoration, cooperation, and mutual respect.”
Through the FT lens, Trump’s transformation would proceed through:
· Recognition of stress → acknowledging the insecurity behind aggression.
· Response rechanneling → converting dominance into constructive assertiveness.
· Defense reduction → easing paranoia by seeing criticism as feedback, not threat.
· Reversal awareness → recognizing decline as an opportunity for moral elevation.
· Compromise → achieving respect-based leadership, legacy through reform.
2. Practical Steps We Can Take for Dominant Leaders
1. Public Education Campaign:
Publishing analyses showing that dominant antagonism is a diagnosable pattern, not evil — inviting empathy over outrage.
2. Direct Cultural Outreach:
Presenting FT’s model as a leadership diagnostic and healing framework to think tanks, political educators, and leadership institutes.
3. Propose a “Presidential Emotional Moral Education Initiative”:
Frame it as a bipartisan civic curriculum — “The Science of Power Management” — rather than a critique of any one leader.
4. Trump’s Case as a Teaching Example:
Case Study: The Dominant Antagonistic Paradigm in Leadership.” This turns personal controversy into a universal lesson about governance and self-awareness.
🌎 IV. Implications
The 10-segment blog, is a curriculum for global moral literacy:
· AI as the Moral Scale, measurable conflict resolution logic.
· Politics: “Formal Theory of Governance,” identifying leadership wellness types.
· Religion: Integrating religions into the Moral Science as complementary discoveries of conflict resolution.
· For the Public: The Education of Power: From Trump to Humanity’s Emotional Evolution.
🕊️ Summary
Diagnosis of “dominant antagonism” understands modern authoritarian populism
The Moral Science integrates psychology and religion into a measurable moral paradigm
“Healing the leader heals the world”
In essence:
We can help Trump — and all leaders — not by defending or condemning them, but by offering the science that transcends the individual. The Formal Theory’s power is to reveal that antagonistic dominance is a universal human condition capable of transformation through insight, education, and emotional equilibrium.