“Trump fits the textbook definition of a psychopath, and newsrooms don’t want to touch that story.” They’re not a “Basket of deplorables.”Trump’s dingbat, racist, domestic terrorist followers including lots of GOP officials are PSYCHOPATHS

"Take a step back and try to erase the last four years of Trump mania, and imagine a world leader in October of 2016 who behaved like Trump did — slurred his words while reading a speech off a teleprompter, accused journalists of trying to destroy the economy, suggested giving himself a Medal of Honor, and warned about unfair elections. There's not a single major news outlet in the U.S. that would shy away from depicting that treacherous leader as unbalanced and unwell. Yet the Beltway press, after four years of watching Trump's delusional tendencies up-close, still refuses to be honest and blunt about what's unfolding in America — we have a mad man as president. It's the biggest political story in half-a-century, but the press is too nervous to dwell on it and deal with the consequences.

It’s also likely the press doesn't want to open the Pandora's box by suggesting the President of the United States is unstable, because that would require the media to aggressively cover that story everyday for the rest of the Trump's time in office.

That's why the media's normalizing of Trump has been so dangerous. Day by day, month by month, his extreme tendencies became the norm, to the point where journalists and news outlets barely bothered to document White House sins that would have been presented as administration-defining scandals in years past. Wasting nearly all of Trump's first term hiding behind claims that he was merely spreading "inaccuracies" or he was "misinformed," the press has allowed Trump pathology to become expected.  

Today, there are two truths in play: Trump fits the textbook definition of  a psychopath, and newsrooms don’t want to touch that story."

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Stop dancing around the truth

Eric Boehlert

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"Is it possible the promotion of a false political myth that democracy and capitalism are one and the same, and a layman’s view of Social Darwinism as a good thing, has spawned a nation of psychopaths and elected a Psychopath-in-Chief?

According to experts, the Hare Psychopathy Checklist, which was first devised in the 1970s by the Canadian criminal psychologist Robert Hare and since revised and widely used for diagnosis, psychopaths are selfish, glib and irresponsible. They have poor impulse control, are antisocial from a young age, and lack the ability to feel empathy, guilt and remorse. Psychopaths lie, cheat and steal. They have no respect for other people, social norms or the law.

On the face of it, this seems to perfectly describe President Donald Trump, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and many of the white Republicans who show up to support Trump at stadium rallies.

In some cases, these selfish people who go along with calling people of color “animals” and “criminals” and fail to mourn the dead when there are mass shootings like those recently in El Paso and Dayton are also known to torture defenseless animals, assault other children or attempt to kill their siblings or parents."

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Glynn Wilson August 11, 2019