Donald Trump is in a life or death struggle to assert his pathological values and views on the US.

[saidsimplesimon]

The title of this post is an eye catching quote from Ian Hughes.

All credit goes to the author of the Daily Kos diary by Hal Brown. I have bookmarked the article, after reading, to share. The author writes in a style that is a must read from start to finish, imo. Reading the material and links gave me a wonderful two hours plus of my much needed affirmation of my “confirmation bias”. This is why I call him IT and monster.

Comments follow the article, they include “Snidley Wiplash” an American who claims to have gotten what he voted for; followed by a take down from “PurpleQuill”. Know your enemies, “The Art of War”.

https://www.euronews.com/2020/04/22/joining-up-the-dots-shows-the-true-depths-of-trump-s-dangerous-narcissistic-pathology-view?fbclid=IwAR1IRdNGCoQp08UHFiAzZ06SwwBtN3JbLfA7Anzf4HeiFKbAzaLv_qmurwQ

Ian Hughes
4/23/20

Joining up the dots shows the true depths of Trump’s dangerous narcissistic pathology
There has only been one headline worth printing since Donald Trump was elected president. That headline is "Donald Trump suffers from a dangerous incurable narcissistic disorder which makes him incapable of empathy and reason. He is a grave danger to the US and the world."

Instead of stating this disturbing fact, the evidence for which is voluminous, the mainstream media have over the last three years led America down the rabbit holes of normalising him and trying to understand him as you would a psychologically healthy human being. But Donald Trump is not a psychologically healthy human being and reporting on him as if he were, empowers him and disempowers people of reason. Acknowledging his pathology is fundamental to reversing this imbalance.

Although the mainstream media have largely refused to name Trump’s disordered mind, a cohort of mental health professionals have been consistently sounding the alarm. During the 2016 presidential election campaign, three psychiatrists wrote to then-President Barack Obama warning that Trump’s widely-reported symptoms of mental instability led them to question his fitness for office. Since Trump was sworn in as president, Yale psychiatrist Bandy Lee has been leading a group of mental health professionals in a concerted campaign to raise awareness of the dangers posed by Trump’s pathological mental state.

There has only been one headline worth printing since Donald Trump was elected president. That headline is "Donald Trump suffers from a dangerous incurable narcissistic disorder which makes him incapable of empathy and reason. He is a grave danger to the US and the world."
Instead of stating this disturbing fact, the evidence for which is voluminous, the mainstream media have over the last three years led America down the rabbit holes of normalising him and trying to understand him as you would a psychologically healthy human being. But Donald Trump is not a psychologically healthy human being and reporting on him as if he were, empowers him and disempowers people of reason. Acknowledging his pathology is fundamental to reversing this imbalance.
…..snip much more at link includes defining and discussing Extreme narcissistic behaviour

Ian Hughes
Author and Senior Research Fellow at MaREI Centre, University College Cork

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/4/23/1939721/-A-story-about-Trump-s-dangerous-malignant-narcissism-from-Europe-s-No-1-international-news-website?utm_campaign=trending

A story about Trump's dangerous malignant narcissism from Europe's No. 1 international news website
Hal Brown
4/23/20

[The Magistrate]

1. This Is Not Only True, Sir

It was immediately obvious when he began campaigning in 2016, and clearly indicated throughout his media career in New York.

The fact must be faced that people voted knowingly for this cheap thug with a hairspray crown, and the most likely explanation why they did is that they share his poisonous mental imbalance in some degree.


"Defeat of a hated enemy is something to be for."

[Thomas Hurt]

2. I figure Trump appeals to people because they too are narcissists, racist, paranoid and sociopaths.

[LastDemocratInSC]

5. Birds of a feather....

[Blue Owl]

3. K&R

[SoonerPride]

4. K & R

[crickets]

6. K&R for visibility.

[Paladin]

7. In the midst of a deadly plague, we're governed by a madman.

Whence cometh our deliverance?

[saidsimplesimon]

8. "We are the change, we have been waiting for." imo