@duty2warn recently posted a tweet about "malignant normality" describing a "degenerative societal phenomenon [where] mass numbers of people begin to view reality through a skewed lens of a leader, [and] even adopt his traits". I have used the term "Trickle Down Pathology".... 1/
Similarly delusional behavior was on display in this FOX/Stuart Varney interview/argument w/former Tea Party Congressman @WalshFreedom exposing the normalization of pathological dishonesty: "That's not a lie, let's not get technical"....3/ @accidntlmystic washingtonexaminer.com/news/stuart-va…
...followed by Varney saying Trump has *never* lied, only "exaggerates and spins". When supporters refuse to acknowledge & continue to defend 13,000 false/inaccurate statements, this indicates the pathology (intellectual dishonesty) existing at a presidential level doesn't ... 4/
...remain contained w/in the disordered person or office. There is an infectious quality to pathology when it exists at such a powerful/influential level, which is largely due to personal investment not just in Trump, but in the decision to support him. 5/
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