Psychological entitlement, or a sense that some individuals or
groups are inherently worthier of certain privileges, is an
overlooked but essential feature of the persistent inequality that
resists social progress and oppresses those in the margins. In the
political climate that gave rise to and resulted in Donald Trump's
presidency, confusion, rage, and feelings of victimization linger
among those who felt empowered by the validation felt with him into
office-feelings that existed and will continue to exist
independently of the former president himself. Enraged, Rattled,
and Wronged confronts psychological entitlement in its many forms
or related attributes, such as narcissism, to expose the ugly
truths at the heart of this phenomenon. In exploring how members of
advantaged groups come to understand their belief in their own
worthiness relative to those in disadvantaged groups, expert
psychologist Kristin J. Anderson channels her research and
expertise in prejudice and discrimination to ask critical questions
of the current political and social climate. What happens to
entitled people when they feel pushed aside? How does their
inflated sense of deservingness make them vulnerable to
manipulation by the demagogues who use them, blinding them to the
negative outcomes that are often paradoxical? What are they willing
to tear down as they scramble to keep their grip on the status and
power they believe are rightfully theirs? How has entitled rage
played out historically, and how do these events lend themselves to
both the predictable and unpredictable manifestations of power
grabs that we see now? Drawing from a wealth of timely examples and
empirical literature, Anderson situates this anger as backlash
against the social progress that empowers marginalized groups, even
at the expense of the dominant group, if necessary. Citing
historical moments such as the rage of whites directed at newly
freed African Americans in the South during Reconstruction and the
anger of the entitled when women have attempted to control their
reproduction, Anderson traces this phenomenon over time and
delineates the link between individual-level processing of
psychological deservingness and macro-level problems that impede
equality, concluding with a call for action for to dominant group
members to join the vibrant movements for social progress that have
emerged in recent years.
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