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Trump Is Not Well
Accepting the reality about the presidents disordered personality is importanteven essential.
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Peter Wehner
Contributing editor at The Atlantic and senior fellow at EPPC
"Donald Trumps disordered personalityhis unhealthy patterns of thinking, functioning, and behavinghas become the defining characteristic of his presidency. It manifests itself in multiple ways: his extreme narcissism; his addiction to lying about things large and small, including his finances and bullying and silencing those who could expose them; his detachment from reality, including denying things he said even when there is video evidence to the contrary; his affinity for conspiracy theories; his demand for total loyalty from others while showing none to others; and his self-aggrandizement and petty cheating.
It manifests itself in Trumps impulsiveness and vindictiveness; his craving for adulation; his misogyny, predatory sexual behavior, and sexualization of his daughters; his open admiration for brutal dictators; his remorselessness; and his lack of empathy and sympathy, including attacking a family whose son died while fighting for this country, mocking a reporter with a disability, and ridiculing a former POW. (When asked about Trumps feelings for his fellow human beings, Trumps mentor, the notorious lawyer Roy Cohn, reportedly said, He pisses ice water.)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/09/donald-trump-not-well/597640/
If democratic leadership expects some inner sense of decency or limits to stop Trump on his chosen path to become the first American dictator, they are making a fatal mistake.
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(41,831 posts)mark my words, if he gets re-elected we will not have a democracy any longer, but a Banana Republic style Dictator.
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(153,160 posts)he makes me SICK