"The persecutors imagined such venomous concentrations of poison that even very small quantities would suffice to annihilate an entire population" #ReneGirard #scapegoatmechanism

Thus, Trump who it to his followers homo sacer, is thus immune to poison, because they see him as saving them from actual poison (the virus). Thus, he makes constant reference to injecting himself with poisonous substances and encourages others to do so.

The sacred is thus once again bound up inexorably with insidious violence in this time of #sacrificialcrisis. #ReneGirard

The poison of sacred violence is more deadly because it is ultimately an internal condition; the scapegoater accuses the Other of deadly infiltration, but in doing so, spreads the violence to the system they claim needs purification.

Paging @CruzControl72 and @poetinbabylon on this thread.