• wuffah@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    This is a child’s conception of Presidential power.

    There is something deeply wrong and hopelessly broken at the core of American government and the American people, to enable and tolerate this kind of narcissistic behavior and absent-minded policy-making by Twitter-decree.

    This style of petty manipulation, negative attention seeking, self-aggrandizing and grandiose obsession, and carelessly destructive interpersonal action is textbook malignant narcissism. You are really, really, really, really not supposed to allow a person like this access to the Presidency (or any position of power at all, ideally) because of how effortlessly destructive they are, and difficult they are to dislodge.

    America is deep in the throes of a particularly nasty form of powerful narcissistic abuse on a national scale, and there is no clear or easy way to escape from it at this stage. There is an entire generation of abusers enabled by this system of power, frothing at the mouth to supplant Trump when he is finally gone.