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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI think the worst of Trump's personality traits is his cruelty.
And that goes double for his deplorable admirers who lap it up.
Funtatlaguy
(10,878 posts)FM123
(10,053 posts)"Somewhere on the wide spectrum between adolescent teasing and the smiling white men in the lynching photographs are the Trump supporters whose community is built by rejoicing in the anguish of those they see as unlike them, who have found in their shared cruelty an answer to the loneliness and atomization of modern life."
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/10/the-cruelty-is-the-point/572104/
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)He is so insecure that whenever he sees anything that is not like him or that opposes who he is, he immediately moves to crush it in any way possible. His ego is so fragile he cannot stand to have him image or his sense of self challenged by anybody. Someday, someone or many someones will deliver the crushing blow and he will shatter like glass.
forgotmylogin
(7,529 posts)It makes him feel bigger and more important.
LisaL
(44,973 posts)How can you pick just one?