To the Editor,
If you google Narcissistic Personality Disorder, the Mayo Clinic website is the first one to pop up. It says that if you have this disorder you may come across as boastful and may look down on people you perceive as inferior; you may feel a sense of entitlement and, when you don’t receive special treatment, you may become angry. Your self-image is one of power and perfection. You have trouble handling anything that may be perceived as criticism. To feel better, you may react with rage or contempt and lash out at those you believe have offended you.
Sound familiar? Ah, yes, we have elected in Donald Trump a president that is so personally flawed it begs the question, what were we thinking? So, while we may have been persuaded that we needed a bully to drain the swamp, the fact that the voting public enabled this egomaniac to assume power speaks more about our own collective pathology. Christians voted for the antichrist, women voted for a misogynist, white supremacists voted for a racist (yes, Trump won all the slave states), veterans voted for a draft dodger, and the poor voted for a rich man who could care less about their plight.
Counter-intuitive don’t you think, voting for someone who probably doesn’t represent your own best self-interests, much less the so-called greater values of our country.
Trump has built a cabinet of sycophants, Spicer and Huckabee-like apologists, who will explain away his 140 character belittling tweets – Trumper Tantrums that any parent with a two-year old can recognize.
But at the end of the day, Trump is a man without a conscience or a sense of humanity and certainly not fit to lead this country.
John Torgrimson
Lanesboro, MN