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posted by janrinok on Monday November 14 2016, @09:17PM   Printer-friendly
from the not-a-different-president dept.

I've come across an article on The Atlantic that analyses Trump's personality:

Many questions have arisen about Trump during this campaign season—about his platform, his knowledge of issues, his inflammatory language, his level of comfort with political violence. This article touches on some of that. But its central aim is to create a psychological portrait of the man. Who is he, really? How does his mind work? How might he go about making decisions in office, were he to become president? And what does all that suggest about the sort of president he'd be?

It's a long, but very interesting read.

Here's a list of sentences the article itself highlights:

Combined with a gift for humor, anger lies at the heart of Trump's charisma.

Trump appeals to an ancient fear of contagion, which analogizes out-groups to parasites and poisons.

Narcissism in presidents is a double-edged sword. It is associated with historians' ratings of "greatness"—but also with impeachment resolutions.

Andrew Jackson displayed many of the same psychological qualities that we see in Trump.

Trump has never forgotten the lesson from his father: The world is a dangerous place. You have to be ready to fight.

And the final paragraph summarizes:

Who, really, is Donald Trump? What's behind the actor's mask? I can discern little more than narcissistic motivations and a complementary personal narrative about winning at any cost. It is as if Trump has invested so much of himself in developing and refining his socially dominant role that he has nothing left over to create a meaningful story for his life, or for the nation. It is always Donald Trump playing Donald Trump, fighting to win, but never knowing why.


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  • (Score: 2) by Sulla on Tuesday November 15 2016, @08:25PM

    by Sulla (5173) on Tuesday November 15 2016, @08:25PM (#427164) Journal

    "Because they were lied to about getting better jobs back. They don't know enough about the world's condition to realize they are being 100% conned."

    So one candidate tells them he will get their jobs back, and the other says good we didn't want them anyways. Almost everyone I talk to knows that Trump will be unable to fix the issue. But when you live in a town that had one factory, and it got shipped to mexico, and now nobody is employed, you sure as hell will not be voting for the woman who didn't show any signs of caring.

    For those I know and associate with this was not about race, or sex, or gender, or jobs, or healthcare, or anything except burning the system of aristocrats down. Trump will bring chaos and hopefully blatant corruption. The only way for people to accept that the enemy is the elite is to be forced to recognize this. Drag them out of the cave kicking and screaming and force them to gaze upon the horror.

    Maybe it won't work and everything comes crashing down. It was going to happen anyways, the only difference is which rich people get to make off with the cash.

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  • (Score: 2) by Zz9zZ on Wednesday November 16 2016, @06:18PM

    by Zz9zZ (1348) on Wednesday November 16 2016, @06:18PM (#427657)

    Well I wasn't addressing the people that want to watch the system burn to the ground. Its hard to argue with that, but my personal preference was for a third party and shakeup of the our elections system. I realize it will need to get worse before politicians are forced to change it... Most Trump supporters are not the "burn it down" types, they think he will buck the system and accomplish things we NEED with a "get it done" attitude. I think it will actually be a little sad to see him become more moderate and take on a more regular presidential attitude, his normal way of doing things won't work as well for him as president. Ah well, we shall see.

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