him if he saw parallels to how a couple in a domestic disturbance unites against a police officer in comparison to how trump seems to benefit, at least among republicans, from each indictment. i said, in my theory, the fighting couple are like republicans, perhaps ready to leave one another or leave trump, until such time as an outsider, in this case prosecutors, police, tell them they must separate. then they rebel against their interloper and they stick together, much like republicans stand with trump. had the cop not arrived, they might have left one another, they might have had a divorce. had trump not been indicted, they might have moved to another candidate. i asked professor shane for his thoughts. he wrote me back with scientific underpinning of my observation. he said, i can see the parallels. what you describe fits the in-group/out-group theory of human relations. although the in-group members