that's quite a picture. Looking at it steadily, what do I see?
- moronic self aggrandizement
- hate
- a very young child. Three year-old, eight tops.

Trump, looks to me, profoundly developmentally retarded, in ways I think it would take a real professional to list.

bingo!
That is actually the newer model of the mob: more integrated with authoritarian regimes.

- nationally: tyrant, oligarchs running networks of crime.
- internationally: networks of tyrants, running the world.

yep. Billy Strings and Molly Tuttle are the popular phenoms in their genre ... they are stunningly good, contributing to joyful culture.

listen Jung, what I'm telling you: she's been with Sigmund, too!

... with every therapist in tooowwwnnn,
*hey!*

eyes tearing up right now.

The difference, and the relief ... of seeing a leader who is moral, humane .. who has joy and warmth and connection.

wow, this is what it's like to visit normalcy during a long period of abuse. we are traumatized as a nation.

Yes.
I just see the basis of it as, “no empathy = no conscience”. Most have that hardwired deeply. So, a vast array of behavior that injure & kill others with zero guilt.

Consider that he held rallies - that his ardent followers attended - during a pandemic.

yes. Trump has a profound personality disorder. The professionals really mapped it out early. not surprisingly there's been a tremendous amount of research in this area in sociology, psychology, etc., since World War II.

Nixon was a musketeer compared to Trump.

the Hitler Trump comparison is more relevant.

if only we'd had a clue

it was a set up:
- Trump went to court so many times, absurdly challenging & undermining election integrity,
- then likely rigged 2024.
- so dems never challenged the election, to not be absurd.

Trump's lifelong predatory con skills are several steps ahead.