Dear Jen:

You are welcome. Your examples are helpful. Reads to me that he is a very angry man. Lovely when not angry, but often angry and … not so lovely. Often when people express much anger about political issues, it is not about politics. It is personal. He is probably angry at a parent who abused him when he was a child. Maybe he is still in contact with that person.

He expressed to you that your mother is a monster for having beaten you up. Maybe his mother or someone else in his household used to beat him up and he never confronted that person and he channels his anger at your mother (who by the way warrants or warranted your anger), at you, and …at immigrants.

anita