GBear4Life said:
I wonder if Trump is the way he is because he's insecure, thus is always in a defensive/offensive posture, or if it's because he's self-deluded.
I am reposting this from earlier in the thread because it is responsive to your questions:
"People like Donald Trump who have severe narcissistic disturbances can't tolerate being criticized," says Dodes, "so the more they are challenged in this essential way, the more out of control they become. They change reality to suit themselves in their own mind." And, as Dodes explains, it creates a vicious cycle: The more out of control Trump becomes, the more reason others have to challenge him, which only makes him more out of control. When he tells a rally crowd that America will become "a third-world country" if he gets impeached, that's this defensive/delusional coupling playing out in real time.
According to Gartner, as the pressure mounts as it likely will with a Democratic House investigating the Trump syndicate the situation will only continue to deteriorate. "The more desperate he is, the more aggressively and the more recklessly he's going to lash out and not just lash out on Twitter, but really lash out in ways that are destructive to the bones of our institutions. So, he'll try to declare criminal investigations on his enemies or anyone who criticizes him. He'll fire everyone involved in the Mueller investigations. He'll fire Sessions" which, of course, he actually did last Wednesday. "He'll ramp up his attack on civil liberties and the rule of law. He'll escalate his incitement to violence, whether it's supporting white nationalists or demonizing minority populations. Things that we think, 'Oh, he could never do that, because that would be so outrageous,' he can and he will. There's no restraints here. There's nothing he won't do. And if it's enormously destructive, that's not actually a negative for him, that's a positive." Rolling Stone, November, 2018
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