Leaders put forth psychotic fantasies that define or construct ordinary social reality--thus rendering people who embrace these fantasies no longer psychotic.

Political leaders introduce psychotic ideas into the public domain. However, insofar as members of society come to share the leader's delusions, these delusions are rendered "normative." Shared psychosis becomes "reality." A freak show: monumental entertainment, yet the pundits take it so seriously. Solemnity interspersed with giggling.

People who live within the domain of politics are immersed within a psychotic delusion. Everyone feels this psychosis, but people don't interrogate it (although some pundits rant and rave against it). For or against what is happening, everyone wants to be part of it. Nobody wants to be left out.  "It's a family affair." 

We no longer recognize psychopathology as psychopathology when an entire society becomes immersed within this psychopathology--possessed by a collective delusion.
 

Richard Koenigsberg