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magicguido

(6,315 posts) Wed Aug 5, 2020, 09:18 AM Aug 2020

Jonathan Swan: trump is not confronting Reality

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Jonathan Swan: trump is not confronting Reality (Original Post) magicguido Aug 2020 OP

With Trump and Coronavirus, It's Malignant Narcissism Plus Toxic Positivity panfluteman Aug 2020 #1

panfluteman

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1. With Trump and Coronavirus, It's Malignant Narcissism Plus Toxic Positivity

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Wed Aug 5, 2020, 11:16 AM

Aug 2020

Mary Trump, in her book tells about how Trump's father Fred was addicted to what she called the "toxic positivity" of Dr. Norman Vincent Peale and his Power of Positive Thinking. And this particular combination has proven to be very deadly with this pandemic.

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