Hightower: "Trumpcare at its most basic: What to do about a leader who's gone off?"

[highplainsdem]

http://www.salon.com/2017/03/12/trumpcare-at-its-most-basic-what-to-do-about-a-leader-whos-gone-off/

It’s time to face up to the obvious: The president of the United States is deranged.

I don’t mean that he’s merely idiosyncratic or pushing policies that I think are crazy. Nor do I say this as just another political jab. I mean that Donald J. Trump literally is mentally ill.

OK, I’m no doctor, but you don’t need a doctorate in mental disorders to see that his behavior in public and on Twitter is beyond abnormal; it’s psychotic. As we’ve seen, he routinely plunges uncontrollably into prolonged fits of petty paranoia. He succumbs to delusions of imperialist grandeur. He spouts absurd right-wing rumors as facts (while simultaneously denying that actual facts are true) and he is pathologically addicted to lying, bizarrely repeating his most blatant fabrications even after they’ve been totally debunked.

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These are not mere eccentricities, not just Trump being Trump. It’s obvious that the guy is not well and is unable to handle the stressful demands of being president of our democratic republic. Indeed, his flaky behavior suggests he’s on the brink of a personal breakdown, and his ever-more-frequent retreats to his posh Florida golf resort tell us he doesn’t even want to do the job.

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[caroldansen]

1. A couple of times I saw him, he looked like he was having a breakdown. And he clearly doesn't like

the job.