As we prepare to inaugurate President-elect Joe Biden on January 20, we're witnessing the decomposition of unstable demagogue and pathological liar Donald "Mango Mussolini" Trump's diseased ego. Every insane claim of massive voter fraud and hints that he may declare martial law to remain in power are clear signs of his psychological deterioration. As psychologist Dr. Alan Blotcky writes in the lead in to his powerful article:
"Donald Trump is totally preoccupied with his existential survival as the walls of reality are closing in on him. He has been repudiated in the election. His psyche cannot comprehend how he could have lost to such an ordinary, mortal man. He is beside himself with embarrassment and humiliation. He is driven by revenge. He wants to settle scores. His thin veneer of greatness and superiority is crumbling away. He is desperate and flailing.
Trump is a psychopath. He has all the defining characteristics in spades: narcissistic, sadistic, antisocial, paranoid. This is malignant psychopathology in the embodiment of our president. He has the kind of personality pathology that should be unacceptable in our top public servant. Trump should have been rooted out in 2016. A psychopath should never have been elected to the highest office in the land. We have been suffering for it ever since: division, tribalism, hostility, racism, xenophobia, terrorism and more." (our emphasis)
The extension of Dr. Blotcky's analysis is that a disgusting and disgraceful 74 million votes were cast for this disturbed would-be autocrat after years of showing us who he was, from his New York City days as a predatory sexual narcissist, to the birther lie he championed, to every despicable thing he's done in the interim. They had an opportunity to right the wrong at the ballot box, and chose to reward him instead. And that's not even touching on the sick, enabling Republicans who would gleefully destroy our Constitutional democracy in service to their cult leader. What Dr. Blotcky calls Trump's "malignant psychopathology" is present evidently in millions of Americans, too.
