Friday, February 2, 2024:   Trump: The Profile Of A Psychopath
A 77-year-old racist, misogynist bigot who has been found liable for rape, who incited a deadly, violent insurrection aimed at overturning a democratic election, who has committed mass fraud for personal enrichment, who is facing 91 separate counts of felony criminal charges, who mishandled everything he touched while in office from the immigration to Iran, who used the highest elected office in the land to channel revenue to his businesses, and who has openly discussed his authoritarian strategies for governing if he returns to power.

He calls for law enforcement to kill people for minor crimes. At the California Republican Convention on September 29th, Trump told the gathering that under his administration shoplifters will be subject to extrajudicial execution: "We will immediately stop all the pillaging and theft. Very simply, if you rob a store, you can fully expect to be shot as you are leaving that store."

He has unhinged plans for forest management and warns his supporters that Biden is going to lead us into World War II (which would require a time machine), or wrongly claims that he defeated Barack Obama in 2016.

Leonard L. Glass, an associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, describes him thus: "He acts like he's impervious, "a very stable genius," but we know he is rageful, grandiose, vengeful, impulsive, devoid of empathy, boastful, inciting of violence, and thin-skinned. At times it seems as if he cannot control himself or his hateful speech. We need to wonder if these are the precursors of a major deterioration in his character defenses."

Glass continues: "If Trump — in adopting language that he cannot help knowing replicates that of Hitler (especially the references to opponents as "vermin" and "poisoning the blood of our country"), we have to wonder if he has crossed into "new terrain." That terrain, driven by grandiosity and dread of exposure (e.g., at the trials) could signal the emergence of an even less constrained, more overtly vicious and remorseless Trump who, should he regain the presidency, would, indeed act like Putin, Kim Jung Un, Victor Orban and the all the authoritarians he praises. Absent conscientious aides who could contain him (as they barely did last time), this could lead to the literal shedding of American blood on American soil by a man who believes he is "the only one" and the one, some MAGA evangelicals believe, is a purifying agent of God and in whom they see no evil nor do they doubt."

Wake up MAGA evangelicals, Jesus would NOT be supporting your boy nor should any sane individual who cares about democracy and America. And for the gun toting Rambo wanabees, the first thing an authoritarian regime will do is take away your right to bear arms.

Donald Trump should not be president because he tried to overthrow the government. We can't have someone guiding our democracy who is undemocratic, claiming that every contest he loses is rigged. We can't have a president who encourages violence, vomits misinformation, campaigns by humiliation and smears and, lately, portrays himself as divine.