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12 Jan, 14 tweets, 4 min read
Trump has been inciting violence for years.

April 17th, per the Virginia GOP: "On Friday, President Donald Trump tweeted, “LIBERATE VIRGINIA, and save your great 2nd Amendment. It is under siege!”

Virginia borders Washington D.C.

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What happened on January 6th was the naturally flowing consequences of having a president who is as psychologically disordered as Trump. From 2018: 2/
Trump's Narcissism not only incites the violence, but the narcissism causes him to desire the violence because after being "rejected" by a majority of the country, the violence soothes his pathologically fragile/wounded ego....3/
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A timeline of Trump's rhetoric: 8/ vox.com/21506029/trump…
A thread analyzing society's failure to rein narcissists/sociopaths, and the threat to democracy: 9/
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Trump's call to @GaSecofState highlights the intersection of "Trickle Down Pathology", the emasculinization of the rule of law, and a gaslighting technique I describe as "the manipulation of the interaction timeline".

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Yes, unfortunately, the people who need to read and learn about it the most, are the ones who are most reluctant to do. I've written about the cognitive processes that contribute to this problem:
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Trump faces potential indictment/incarceration for criminality. He's desperate, and feels his only chance to avoid criminal liability is to do everything possible, including breaking more laws, to avoid accountability for previous criminality. He has nothing to lose at this point
The incentives are aligned with Trump acting recklessly, criminally, and treasonously......2/
This isn't the first time the incentive structure is misaligned with a president's conduct. There are parallels to the OLC memo that insulates a president from indictment:
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3 Jan
Thread on why and how society's legal and social systems fail to rein in Narcissists/Sociopaths:
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29 Dec 20
Excellent point, and one that I think helps explain why so many people were drawn to a guy like Trump:

He not only entertained them......but his (fraudulent) perception of wealth allowed them to vicariously escape their feelings of economic alienation:
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22 Dec 20
Article analyzing the correlation between wealth and narcissism as a contributing factor to the behavior/disorder.

This thread analyzes why society's social/legal systems fail to rein in Narcissists/Sociopaths once they present w/those symptoms/disorders:
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