"... One cannot talk about contagious sociopathy without considering righteousness – a term describing the phenomenon by which malicious acts – including harming and killing others – are justified as long as the bad actor can consider the ‘victims’ to be an enemy. This is a bedrock of the Trump and MAGA attacks on the Left and any that criticize or oppose them.
"I have written and said it before and I will do so again: The contagious spread of sociopathy has provided us with potential and actual leaders who embody the worst that humanity has to offer according to moral, legal, religious/spiritual, and societal norms…and they continue to run on this platform." -- Seth D. Norrholm, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences at Wayne State University School of Medicine. In his essay, Norrholm discusses three types of public political/governmental sociopathy: true sociopaths like the Malignant Loser; performative sociopaths like Bootsie, Marjorie Traitor Greene, Kari Lake, the Republican SCOTUS, etc.; and sociopath enablers like "Moscow Mitch" McConnell.
Or, to sum up with the unofficial Republican motto: "Comfort the comfortable, and afflict the afflicted."
