narcissistic collapse

O yea, Orange Caligula is rattled.  For some reason being called weird really bothers him. Perhaps in his distant past he was called that. Trumple-thin-skin is a malignant narcissist.  Donny Dipshit is a racist, and a misogynist. A black woman is not acceptable. Unlike most psychopaths with his personality disorder, Don the Con is really stupid. Orange Cheato is vindictive. The melted circus peanut is a sadist. Cadet Spanky Bonespurs has dementia. The Devil's protege expects center ring in the circus always. Attention to him has been diverted. Perhaps, he is entering a mental death spiral. Trump is a psychopath, and hates being mocked.

Monday begins the Democratic Convention in the Chicago Lands. It is going to be unique.  A sitting president, Joseph Biden, who easily won all the primaries, will not be nominated. He deserves to be president for four more years. He really earned it. Instead, he succumbed to electoral pressure and abdicated. Biden sacrificed the position of the presidency, so that the party would have an easier time winning against anti-democratic forces.

Biden deferred to his vice-president, Kamala Harris. She will be the first of several demographics to claim the presidency. She quickly won support from the entire party. She kindled interest from outside the party. Harris was something new for the press, and at first they were welcoming.

The first question was who will the new vice-president be? Tim Walz was a most excellent choice. The man is very congenial, He has a good history: teacher, coach, soldier, congressman, governor. The contrast to the weird billet the Repukes have chosen is remarkable.  Walz, more than anyone else, found the magic word to rattle the fascist opponents. 'Weird' is accurate, understated, non-aggressive, humourous , and dismissive. Harris and Walz are happy, they laugh, they act like humans. This is beyond annoying to the Republicans. Trump and Vance are malevolent frauds.

Erich Fromm's, The Heart of Man: Its Genius for Good and Evil, 1964, Fromm used the term “malignant narcissism.” That defines Trump.
  “It is a madness that tends to grow in the lifetime of the afflicted person. The more he tries to be a god, the more he isolates himself from the human race; this isolation makes him more frightened, everybody becomes his enemy, and in order to stand the resulting fright he has to increase his power, his ruthlessness, and his narcissism.”

John Gartner has for several years tried to focus America on this.
“Trump suffers from malignant narcissism, a diagnosis [that is] far more toxic and dangerous than mere narcissistic personality disorder because it combines narcissism with three other severely pathological components: paranoia, sociopathy, and sadism. When combined, this perfect storm of psychopathology defines the ‘quintessence of evil,’ according to Fromm, the closest thing psychiatry has to describing a true human monster.”

Gartner's comrade, Howard Marks, The Shallow State @OurShallowState
“Narcissistic Mortification is when a narcissist like Trump crosses over to a place where he sees visions of his own demise. A malignant narcissist who once held the loftiest of titles, cannot cope with this. Trump's fears have become "dread." He is very unhinged, yet uncomfortable in the feeling itself, because he knows he's partly responsible. Reality is being forced upon him, that's not of his making. He can't have that!
    To put it in more psychological terms, narcissistic mortification is EXTREME fear experienced when one with a rigidly grandiose pathology sees his sense of self as exposed, defective or inferior. It was coined by Freud in his book Moses and Monotheism.”

The next stage is narcissistic collapse. What is the collapse? Is it terminal, temporary, or cyclical? What is the collapse? It is narcissistic rage.  Remember Adolf of the Third Reich? 

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This is already a bit long. Bandy X. Lee is a psychiatrist also. In 2017 she edited The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump. She has spoken to many in Congress of the danger of Trump and his insanity. Lee taught at Yale School of Medicine and Yale Law School from 2003 through 2020.

In 1964 Goldwater ran for president, and was widely thought crazy. So a “Goldwater Rule” came about. Thou shant call someone that is crazy “crazy”, if  you have not personally examined the crazy person. Yale invoked it upon her over both Trump, and the vile Alan Dershowitz. Yale is acting against academic freedom, and probably is in league with supporters of Trump.