We are watching history in the making: the GOP is breaking apart.

[Metaphorical]

107. The Autocratic Personality

the psychopath, and the narcissist overlap significantly. They all require adulation, confirmation of their intrinsic worth, and the presumption that they are better than those around them. They view themselves as predators who live off the prey of the sheep around them, and they assume that anyone who is not also a comparable predator to be sheep.

These are all extroverted dark traits. Everyone has some manifestation of these, but usually they are tempered as we grow older. Introverts have dark traits as well - nihilism, passive-aggressiveness, asocial behavior, neuroticism and anxiety are all part and parcel of the negative introverted set. For every architect or professor there is the conspiracy theorist or mad genius. Overall, you find more introverts as Democrats than Republicans, and far more extroverts as Republicans rather than Democrats. Introverts are also usually much more self-aware. I've known a number of CEOs over the years, and industry is full of extroverted narcissists, while there are very few introvert CEOs (Bill Gates, arguably, is the only one who comes to mind, and I say that only because I've met the man socially a few times over the years).

I think that extroverts and introverts both can be quite intelligent, but the extroverted personality is much more inclined to seek power, riches, and other manifestations of success, and this can often come at the expense of more intellectual pursuits (or deeper self-insight). When combined with a strong intellect extroverts can be extraordinary leaders, but take a sub-par intellect and what you typically get is the narcissist or authoritarian, especially when highly judgmental.

Many extroverts see money simply as a way of keeping score. It's the score they're after, the tangible indicator of their success. I think this is different from greed, which often is driven by insecurity.