Reply #13: Yes it is -- I think that the type of "serial bully" that particularly [View All]

[Time for change]

fits here is:

The Socialised Psychopath or Sociopath

Also known as the corporate psychopath, workplace psychopath, industrial psychopath and administrative psychopath.

Motivation: power, gratification, personal gain, survival
Mindset: manipulation, deception, evil
Malice: high to very high; when held accountable, off the scale

Jekyll & Hyde personality
always charming and beguilingly plausible, especially to those who are capable of protecting or enhancing the sociopath's position
excels at deception (this must never be underestimated, but always is)
excels at evasion of accountability
is extremely and successfully manipulative of people's perceptions and emotions (eg guilt and anger)

This description seems to me to be so close to our entire administration. But I stopped copying it when I got to the part that said "silver tongued". That didn't quite seem to fit.