We Are All at the Mercy of the Narcissist in Chief (NYT - paywall alert)

[meow2u3]

If, by some grievous misfortune, you should happen to have a pathological narcissist in your life — a drain on your soul, a bottomless chute of need, a roaring outboard motor of jealousies and delusions and self-regard — there’s no shortage of literature offering advice, and most of it preaches the same thing: Never take the bait. If you can disengage, by all means do; if you cannot, keep clear boundaries. Even if it means building an alligator-filled moat.

This advice works fine if the pathological narcissist is a neighbor, a childhood friend, even a cousin or a colleague.

But what do you do if that pathological narcissist is the president of the United States?

A number of Donald Trump’s critics have reached a consensus: We are being governed by a man with a narcissistic personality disorder, almost certainly of the malignant variety, and it’s time to call it by name.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/11/opinion/trump-narcissism.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage

[NRaleighLiberal]

1. great op ed. spot on.

[TreasonousBastard]

2. I subscribe to the Times and see this stuff every day-- they hate him...

Two my favorite reads are:

https://www.nytimes.com/by/gail-collins

and

https://www.nytimes.com/column/paul-krugman

Whose latest gives thanks that Trump is so inept. If he was any good at doing what he's trying to do, we'd be in BIG trouble.

[comradebillyboy]

3. Does the Times hate Trump more than it hates the Democratic candidates?

For all that supposed hatred of Trump they carry his water every day.

[TreasonousBastard]

4. They hate everyone-- that's the point of the press. But...

Trump has more stuff to hate than anyone else. And they make that clear.