Goodreads Doesn't Have It, Data Migration: The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump
Great book, in conjunction with my findings on narcissism from about a year of research. Even goes so far as to mention projective identification, not just projection, as part of the narcissistic spectrum. Much of narcissism studies don't mention that part. Another part they don't mention is the preformal/associative/proximal/incomplete/disordered thinking of the narcissist. This book also notes that critical symptom and ties it to the fact the clear reliance on such logic in the constitution makes a president eligible for elimination on the 25th amendment.
Trump shows very disordered, sloppy thinking. The measure of disability for the 25th is that they have to have disordered, incoherent logic that is logically self-inconsistent. Trump definitely shows all this. They also emphasize it isn't so much that he is insane, but that he is dangerous. The Soviet Union tried to put people who thought communism didn't work or was a bad idea in insane asylums. Ironically, many of these Soviet leaders had deeply disorganized thinking that would make them ineligible to be involved in the presidential office under the 25th such as "the West invented gayness" which is a confusion and conflation that the CIA, associated with the West, had a disproportional response to the AIDS crisis towards gays. Getting "The West invented gayness" out of that is the picture of sloppy, disorganized thinking. They would be eliminated on that kind of narcissistic disordered/preformal/associative logic on the 25th, and they are literally trying to be the measure of sanity. Narcissism like that is unbelievable, but the Soviet Union has tons of it.
Another good point that in times of crisis people will want someone to take care of them and do all the heavy lifting for them. They revert and regress to this.
His narcissism is a nightmare and precludes him from the office. How have we not had the guts to just do this? Being able to make logically complete arguments, self-consistent arguments speaks for itself as does the clear and obvious struggle to do so that reveals the narcissist (for example, just yesterday I was speaking to someone who couldnât fathom how you couldnât have the ethno-religious Jew while not having the ethno-nationalist-religious Aryan. They want to derealize the Aryan while keeping the Jew as asymmetrical derealization that showed that they were trying to get away with exceptionalist exterminatory fascism for one false raceâif ethno-religious is falseâ, the Aryans, while saying âthe Jewsâ were real. Then they showed again completely self-inconsistent logic saying the use of âThe Jewsâ made them clearly activate a denied PTSD trigger (I encouraged them to get evaluated for PTSD, they denied it), when I said they can then say the myth of the ethno-religious Jew. They didnât oblige and continued saying âThe Jewsâ showing their self-inconsistent disordered logic. They really struggled with self-consistency in just the way the narcissist who struggles with preformal logic and self-consistent systems does trying to use ethno-religion as valid for one group, the Jews, but not for another, the Aryans. One was a real and a myth while the other was false when they had the exact same mechanism. Completely self-inconsistent thinking. They really struggled to see their own self-inconsistencies too in a really disturbing way.) It's disturbing to see how in the Reagan days just him reading a note meant to give him plausible deniability verbatim was seen as corruption moment. Nowadays we literally have someone using Trump as a proxy acting like the President because they can't legally be otherwise for the sheer attention of it, with 20+ children. That is a whole new level of shocking narcissism. It's disturbing to read about what used to be jaw-dropping corruption and shocking narcissism after seeing Elon Musk and Trump today. I can't believe people try to describe it as normal.