On his private Twitter-like platform, one of the monster-child's latest outbursts has been attracting attention on Twitter:
The racist attack on Gauleiter McConnell's wife attracted a lot of the commentary, but it seems to me far more revealing is the absurd attribution of a "DEATH WISH" to McConnell.
One thing anyone who watched Trump on Twitter knows is that projection is one of his primary psychological defense mechanisms: he always accuses others of doing or feeling what he himself in fact does or feels. Trump, as everyone knows, is a textbook case of narcissistic personality disorder, but he is also now confronting--having lost the election, and facing increasing legal peril, civil and criminal--"narcissistic collapse":
When narcissists are publicly outed as failures, particularly if the outing is public and high-profile, it often provokes a condition called narcissistic collapse.
For a narcissist like Trump with considerable power, the ability to harm organizations/institutions, or who can meaningfully threaten damage to other people, this is the moment of maximum danger for those around him.
Hitler, another classic narcissist with a similarly unloved and miserable childhood, confronted his failures in the last weeks of World War II. In the movie Downfall, which portrays Hitler’s final days, you can see and hear him disintegrate.
My dear departed friend Armin Lehman was the 15-year-old Hitler Youth soldier portrayed in the film who handed Hitler the news the war was lost. He wrote a book about his experience, In Hitler’s Bunker: A Boy Soldier’s Eyewitness Account of the Fuhrer’s Last Days, which we discussed extensively when he was first writing it and during the three years Armin and I traveled the world together, mostly across the US, Europe, and the Far East.
Hitler, in those final weeks — Armin told me and the historical record verifies — actually welcomed the destruction of Germany by American and Soviet bombs and tanks.
He had not failed: his narcissism would not let him confront that.
What is unhinged polemic against McConnell is really telling us is that he intends to reign destruction down on everyone he can in order to ward off a complete narcissistic collapse. Since he is no longer President, he can't annihilate the world, but he can certainly produce civil unrest and political violence, and he almost certainly will.
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