persecution complex

noun

1. psychol an acute irrational fear that other people are plotting one's downfall and that they are responsible for one's failures

Example Sentences

MAGA’s response to Kirk’s tragic assassination has been a kind of mask-off moment for the right’s persecution complex.

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For decades, many white evangelicals in particular have nursed a persecution complex that recasts disagreement over religion and spirituality as oppression.

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He's apparently driven by the same persecution complex as Trump and has developed an equal thirst for revenge.

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You'll notice that his persecution complex was in full effect even then, as he whines to Walters that nobody's ever been treated as unfairly as he has been.

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Apparent dementia, plus sociopathy, plus a cult-like following, combined with vindictiveness, a persecution complex, a love of autocracy, and an entire far-right ecosystem bent on turning America into one, is a formula for the end of our democratic republic.

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