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As @gtconway3d says, there were two groups of people who were right on the dangers of Donald Trump in 2015/2016:
Mental healthcare professionals who understood narcissistic psychopaths/malignant narcissists.
Historians who are experts on authoritarians/strongmen/tyrants.
Mental healthcare professionals who understood narcissistic psychopaths/malignant narcissists.
Historians who are experts on authoritarians/strongmen/tyrants.
Why/how does a personality disorder rise to positions of power or get away with crimes for decades, when we normally associate these pathologies with significant dysfunction/failure to cope?
It’s our failure to recognize a subtype of psychopathy where narcissism predominates.
It’s our failure to recognize a subtype of psychopathy where narcissism predominates.
Narcissistic psychopaths need manipulative power and control over people to feed their egos and psychically survive exactly like they need oxygen to feed their cells. Indeed they lie and manipulate like they breathe.
Conscienceless, they have no anchor to reality or to telling the truth. They fabricate their reality with lies and disinformation. They don’t have the normal spectrum of human emotions nor any moral constraints so they possess an uncanny ability to read people’s motivations.
They are highly manipulative. They crave being the center of attention and adulated. They need to feel special and be seen as having special powers. They are innately masters at using rhetoric and storytelling to psychologically manipulate others to their advantage.
They have no moral restraints on exploitation as they are the only being of consequence. Their need fulfillment is their only tangible reality.
They explicitly exploit people’s insecurities, fears and anxieties and place themselves as the all-knowing fixer and savior.
They explicitly exploit people’s insecurities, fears and anxieties and place themselves as the all-knowing fixer and savior.
Their expertise is manipulation, subversion and exploitation for power and control over people to repress their inner defectiveness of existing without a conscience. Failure to get this narcissistic supply of control for ego sustenance is a threat to their very existence.
Those restrained from their worst impulses by some degree of conscience but poor ability to critically assess, see the narcissistic psychopath as unique, exceptional, enigmatic. He becomes a solution to what ails them through narcissistic collusion, bonding over shared enemies.
Nothing binds the insecure, fearful, and anxious, a state the malignant narcissist has himself conjured into existence with rhetoric and narrative setting, like the “us versus them.”
https://x.com/acyn/status/1736113307319210375?s=46&t=9tAXDKyNXmaGjaiIdtbihw
https://twitter.com/acyn/status/1736113307319210375
He’s talking like Hitler, shares the same traits as Hitler and is seeking the same power and control as Hitler because they share the same conscienceless, exploitive pathology.
https://x.com/narceducator/status/828586195651272704?s=46&t=9tAXDKyNXmaGjaiIdtbihw
https://twitter.com/narceducator/status/828586195651272704
We must not let the pathetic nature of his narcissism minimize the dangerousness of his vindictiveness, retribution, psychopathy, sadism. His absolute proclivity is for destruction of any person/institution who tries to stop him/hold him accountable. We can’t underestimate him.
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