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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWe Are All at the Mercy of the Narcissist in Chief (NYT - paywall alert)
If, by some grievous misfortune, you should happen to have a pathological narcissist in your life a drain on your soul, a bottomless chute of need, a roaring outboard motor of jealousies and delusions and self-regard theres no shortage of literature offering advice, and most of it preaches the same thing: Never take the bait. If you can disengage, by all means do; if you cannot, keep clear boundaries. Even if it means building an alligator-filled moat.
This advice works fine if the pathological narcissist is a neighbor, a childhood friend, even a cousin or a colleague.
But what do you do if that pathological narcissist is the president of the United States?
A number of Donald Trumps critics have reached a consensus: We are being governed by a man with a narcissistic personality disorder, almost certainly of the malignant variety, and its time to call it by name.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/11/opinion/trump-narcissism.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage
NRaleighLiberal
(60,015 posts)TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)Two my favorite reads are:
https://www.nytimes.com/by/gail-collins
and
https://www.nytimes.com/column/paul-krugman
Whose latest gives thanks that Trump is so inept. If he was any good at doing what he's trying to do, we'd be in BIG trouble.
comradebillyboy
(10,154 posts)For all that supposed hatred of Trump they carry his water every day.
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)Trump has more stuff to hate than anyone else. And they make that clear.