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Trump: A damaged, pathetic personality whose obvious impairment has only gotten worse (Original Post) Motley13 Aug 2017 OP
This is an excellent article greymattermom Aug 2017 #1
Trumps arrested development jimmy the one Aug 2017 #2
This article also reminds us of how the media fluffed Trump all the way through the primaries enough Aug 2017 #3

jimmy the one

(2,708 posts)
2. Trumps arrested development
Sun Aug 13, 2017, 08:52 AM
Aug 2017

Good article motley, thanks. The title drew me in, almost didn't click on link but the title was too hard to resist.

By 2016, the private Trump was on permanent public display, raging over mere slights, seeing plots in every ill turn of events and, as always, stunningly self-absorbed. He was called a racist, a sexist and a bully. But his mental health issues were euphemized as problems of “temperament.” He lied ceaselessly, reflexively and clumsily, but his lies were called merely “unproven” or, later, “false.”

In 2016, the precariousness of Trump’s mental health was clear to all with eyes to see, but like extras in a remake of “The Emperor’s New Clothes,” reporters averted their glances. The day after the election, they were all in a state of shock, like staff at an asylum who woke one morning to find that the patient who thought he was Napoleon had just been named emperor of France.

Ha.

t’s likely that Trump’s arrested development also got him white working-class votes, among males especially. The infantilization of the American male is a phenomenon we have been slow to recognize. It is a product of fast-narrowing economic horizons fueled by cultural forces; by beer ads and anti-intellectualism, by addiction and violent video games, and now by Trump, on whom Jon Stewart pinned the fitting moniker “man baby.”

Yup, macho machismo amongst the mainly younger set in search of some higher ideology they can adopt to set themselves above their ill-perceived notions of educated adversaries as elitist know littles.

enough

(13,237 posts)
3. This article also reminds us of how the media fluffed Trump all the way through the primaries
Sun Aug 13, 2017, 09:49 AM
Aug 2017

and general election because he was a "ratings magnet." Of all the factors that brought Trump to the presidency, this may be the most important.


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