America’s leading mental health professionals have concluded that Donald Trump is mentally unwell, and likely a sociopath — if not a psychopath. Trump has shown himself to have a diseased mind, which in turn amplifies his already corrupt morality and ethics, attraction to violence, and overall capacity for evil.
Thomas Edsall consulted with mental health professionals from some of America’s most prestigious institutions about this emergency. They concluded that Trump’s aging brain and apparent cognitive decline are playing in his pathological behavior: “Trump is an aging malignant narcissist,” Aaron L. Pincus, a professor of psychology at Penn State, wrote in an email. “As he ages, he appears to be losing impulse control and is slipping cognitively.
Edwin B. Fisher, a professor of psychology at the University of North Carolina, made the case in an email that Trump’s insistence on the validity of his own distorted claims has created a vicious circle, pressuring him to limit his close relations to those willing to confirm his beliefs:
Craig Malkin, who is a lecturer in psychology at Harvard Medical School, emphasized what he believes is Trump’s increasingly psychopathic behavior. If the evidence emerging proves true — that Trump knew he lost and continued to push the big lie anyway — his character problems go well beyond simple narcissism and reach troubling levels of psychopathy.
Dr. Justin Frank warned that Trump has a “classic God complex” driven by a persecutory delusion. In my opinion, Trump’s incessant, word-salad repetition reflects chronic substance abuse or impending dementia, which is consistent with the blank eyes. His blotchy red and puffy face (and constant sniffling) are not new but underscore a clinician’s natural suspicion that he is not cognitively healthy.
Trump’s plans to become America’s first dictator are creating a cataclysmic synergy between his diseased mind and a fascist political party eager to reduce democracy to rubble. The right-wing disinformation propaganda machine is escalating its war on reality and truth as it shapes and prepares Trump’s return to power.
Trump has publicly announced plans to use the United States military to occupy Democratic-led cities and other “blue” parts of the country as part of a plan to impose martial law. Dictator Trump and his enforcers will attempt to legitimize this attack on the American people’s fundamental civil and human rights by claiming that they are actually cracking down on “crime” in the name of “public safety.”
None of this is new. As seen in Nazi Germany, history shows that sick leaders attract sick followers who in turn combine to create sick mass movements that oppress (and do worse to) their fellow citizens as they destroy society. Ignoring these lessons and precedents is a choice – one that is usually fatal.
Approved ~ FS
Captain
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