Yale psych prof explains Trump's pathology--and why he's more dangerous than ever

[Judi Lynn]

TANA GANEVA
04 JAN 2019 AT 16:57 ET

On Thursday, a Democratic majority was sworn into Congress. The newly elected progressive lawmakers made their intentions clear.

“When your son looks at you and says, ‘Momma look, you won, bullies don’t win,’ and I said ‘Baby they don’t,’ because we’re going to go in there and we’re gonna impeach the motherf—-er,” Rashida Tlaib said at a party Thursday night.

Bandy X. Lee: Yes, very. We know from Donald Trump’s past actions when he has come under criticism that there is great reason to be concerned about how he will react to an incoming Democratic House ready to put checks on him. We know from his frequent tweets that reference his own inflated self-image and retaliate against those who challenge it that this will be the pattern of his response. A study found that his Twitter usage widely instigates hate crimes, and Mr. Trump’s vengeful words against those in the House could further contribute to a culture of division and violence in the United States.

ABC News reported 17 court cases that traced defendants’ violence, threats or alleged assaults directly to Mr. Trump. The greater the pressure, the more his mental challenges will cause him to take unpredictable and potentially extreme and dangerous actions as president, and as long as he is in his office, he of course has a lot of power to do damage. There should no longer be any doubt about this propensity, and lawmakers and the public should not take it lightly, either.

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[hedda_foil]

1. For once rawstory has some important original reporting

[area51]

2. Always great but scary to read her analyses.

"Indeed, he will become increasingly self-destructive, as well as damaging to the country, the more his condition worsens."

[RestoreAmerica2020]

3. Thank for post and link! Excellent interview. Dr. Bandy Lee..explains shared pyschosis...

..and provides some insight as to why people around him enable his behavior, are complicit.


i]Excerpt

Tana Ganeva: President Trump’s approval ratings continue to be high among Republican voters and the Republican leadership is largely silent. How do you explain continued loyalty to the President?

Bandy X. Lee: Again, this is the expected course when we are dealing with mental pathology. Studies have shown that “leaders” with actual pathology are more effective in beguiling the public—and perhaps lawmakers, too, although we might have expected better of them—not less.

For example, a truly paranoid person is more likely to whip up frenzy, and hence garner irrational support, among his followers than a rational person who is simply employing the same methods as a strategy. With the sick person, you will see two camps over time: the healthier portion of the population, which becomes exhausted, inured, and increasingly hopeless; and the less healthy portion, which becomes more and more taken but less and less in touch with reality.

The overall effect is what we call “shared psychosis”: the population starts taking on the same symptoms as the person who is ill. The portion that “desires” Mr. Trump’s presidency may seem as if they are getting what they want, but the longer he stays, the more deleterious his effects will be, finally driving himself and them to destruction.

[jmowreader]

4. I remember this other party

Some guy who’s got the face of a turtle claimed the only Job of the 2009 Congress was to make sure Barack Obama was a one-term President...and not one puke bitched about that.