Thursday, October 01, 2015

Indeed

AlterNet: A Psychologist Puts Trump and the GOP on the Couch - What's going on in the Republican mind? By Michael Bader, DMH
Trump is an obviously racist bloviator, the creepiest and most blatantly disturbed of the bunch, for sure, but the lot of them come across as empty suits projecting poll-driven personas that their handlers believe will resonate with their base of angry and/or older white men.

Let’s start with grandiosity, a term familiar to psychologists in our work with patients who need to inflate their self-esteem and self-assessments in order to ward off feelings of inferiority or helplessness.

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