Regarding Trump’s narcissism and where it will lead next:
When faced with public loss of esteem / public shame, narcissists go into a flailing freefall.
They are wholly unable to handle damage to how others see them.
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When faced with public loss of esteem / public shame, narcissists go into a flailing freefall.
They are wholly unable to handle damage to how others see them.
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They are also wholly unable to accept that they are in any way personally responsible for that damage...
...and they are ABSOLUTELY unable to apologize, admit errors or change course in any way that would even imply past behavior was inappropriate.
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...and they are ABSOLUTELY unable to apologize, admit errors or change course in any way that would even imply past behavior was inappropriate.
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Their go-to compulsive response is to tunnel deeper into the fictional little bubble they’ve created.
They pull their enablers closer and rail against outsiders.
They rail against rival information sources.
They both rage on outsiders and demand enablers protect them.
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They pull their enablers closer and rail against outsiders.
They rail against rival information sources.
They both rage on outsiders and demand enablers protect them.
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Trump does all of these things routinely but the extreme duress of declining approval and rising support for impeachment will up all of that exponentially.
In particular, he will turn on even soft supporters with a scathing vitriol for not doing enough to defend him.
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In particular, he will turn on even soft supporters with a scathing vitriol for not doing enough to defend him.
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That rage has a bifurcating effect. It splits the flock further.
The most ride-or-die enablers will do as asked and throw themselves in front of moving trains - all for what will prove to be no gain and eventual pain.
The rest though...
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The most ride-or-die enablers will do as asked and throw themselves in front of moving trains - all for what will prove to be no gain and eventual pain.
The rest though...
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The rest will see that even doing far too much isn’t enough.
They’ll see that people who have done nothing more than failing to throw themselves in front of speeding bullets get treated like wholesale enemies.
And that is wake up call for some.
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They’ll see that people who have done nothing more than failing to throw themselves in front of speeding bullets get treated like wholesale enemies.
And that is wake up call for some.
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Narcissists have a weird, poisonous, almost hypnotic way of getting people to be perfectly fine with a relationship in service of the narcissist.
Those people secretly think it’s a mutual relationship though. They think there is some earned goodwill.
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Those people secretly think it’s a mutual relationship though. They think there is some earned goodwill.
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Seeing loyal supporters of the narc get viciously torched for merely failing to be reputational suicide bombers for the narc is an eye opener.
There won’t be a flood but there will be a steady trickle of soft defections.
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There won’t be a flood but there will be a steady trickle of soft defections.
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Watch for Trump excoriating people on his own side for not dying on the frontlines for him.
And watch for new leaks about his dysregulated, Batshit McNuts behavior from sources inside the White House.
The two feed each other.
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And watch for new leaks about his dysregulated, Batshit McNuts behavior from sources inside the White House.
The two feed each other.
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The death spiral of a narcissist is like a thermonuclear reaction:
Hard to initiate but even harder to stop once begun.
Trump’s flamethrower of rage is turning toward his own people and that’ll burn him down all the faster.
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Hard to initiate but even harder to stop once begun.
Trump’s flamethrower of rage is turning toward his own people and that’ll burn him down all the faster.
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