![]() ![]() And he has no tolerance, none, for dissent or disagreement. ![]() Grandiosity – Trump believes that he alone knows the whole truth and nothing but.Centrality – Trump’s world is one in which everything has meaning only as it pertains to him.Suspicion – Trump tirelessly engages in a relentless search for the enemies that he assumes without question are out there somewhere.The principal components of political paranoia are: Just before the circus starts it’s appropriate remind ourselves yet again of how psychologically unstable and unfit for public life is our former president. It’s no more than – but no less than – a reminder of Trump’s extreme paranoia and deep-seated narcissism. Still,he has realized his wildest and yes, fondest dream: being stage center, the center of global attention. How mentally unstable how deviant and delusional how paranoid and narcissistic. I focus here on Trump because it’s worth being reminded at this critical juncture of how aberrational he is. It does not focus on his followers, his enablers who are, of course, integral to the story, especially prominent Republicans who in recent days have crept like lemmings again to defend him. This post focuses on one man, one leader, Trump. Trump is the consummate showman, and this will be his biggest show yet. ![]() And the world will be, despite numberless bigger fish to fry, riveted by the spectacle. The American people will be ginned up, riled up by political passions right, left, and center. However, in this imperfect world, the event will generate hysteria “unlike the world has ever seen.” The media, all media, will be apoplectic. In a perfect world this would happen quietly, in reasonable accordance with a reasonable law. On Tuesday April 4, at 2:15 pm former president Donald Trump is scheduled to be arraigned in a New York City courtroom on charges of one or more crimes. ![]()
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