https://hotair.com/headlines/archives/2011/11/16/republicans-dont-like-mitt-romney-because-theyre-attracted-to-non-thought-or-something/feed/HotAir is the leading conservative blog for breaking news and commentary covering the Biden administration, politics, media, culture, and current elections.en-usFri, 12 Jun 2026 00:20:12 -0400<![CDATA[In fact, as they struggle to settle on a leader by indulging in serial infatuation with a variety of unelectable alternatives to the front-runner, the Republicans are revealing a fundamental fact about a large and controlling segment of the party: they can only tolerate leaders who are simpler than Mitt Romney seems to be. The “anybody-but-Mitt” attraction to simpler alternatives is just the latest expression of a concept known as the attraction to non-thought, an unconscious defense first identified by British psychoanalyst Gianna Williams. The appeal of the phenomenon is simple: why make the effort to entertain notions of complexity when to do so invites the risk of psychic chaos that uncertainty can produce?]]>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 21:00:08 -0500<![CDATA[Allahpundit]]>https://hotair.com/headlines/2011/11/16/republicans-dont-like-mitt-romney-because-theyre-attracted-to-non-thought-or-something-n87778