Exactly. And it the same with the nation. Two years ago, I didn’t get it. I couldn’t understand @realDonaldTrump’s self-defeating and destructive conduct—the Comey firing and so many other things. It was clear that he was incompetent, but it was more than that: ... 1/5
... Why didn’t he learn from his mistakes? He made no sense to me, until I read this article: 2/5
rollingstone.com/politics/polit…
rollingstone.com/politics/polit…
And *then* he made total sense. He wasn’t playing 17-dimensional chess, he wasn’t just dumb, it was that he’s a poster child for Narcissistic Personality Disorder. I explored more of what the experts had to say, and learned that he met the criteria for sociopathy as well. 3/5
I thought about it some more, and realized that someone with @realDonaldTrump’s personality defects can’t possibly carry out the duties that the Constitution requires of a president: to obey—to uphold—the law, and, in doing so, to put the nation’s interests above his own. 4/5
And so I wrote this in an attempt to put these thoughts together in one place: 5/5
theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
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