Trump’s illness involves his deep-seated need for desecration
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History News Network
23 Jan 2018 at 14:52 ET
by Richard Striner
He is crude, nasty, insulting, fights dirty, and behaves in a manner so unbalanced that psychiatrists have been sounding the alarm for at least two years about his mental condition. Yet the current White House physician — one Ronny Jackson — claims that the results of a “cognitive exam” show that Donald Trump is just fine.
The question is of vital importance to America and to the world. It is also important to historians, because it leads to another question: has the Electoral Co
“Madness” is a concept like “indecency” that can be shrugged away as imprecise or beyond definition. But the issue of indecency is precisely the issue that defines the insanity of Trump. He is driven to make things as pointlessly disgusting and as needlessly horrible as possible — disgusting to the point where most normal people feel sick to their stomachs — and to do it for ever-higher stakes.
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Striner is an historian. Historians measure their words. So, we must pay attention when an historian says Trump is attracted to filth, that he loves to defile. I am a developmentally oriented psychotherapist, and I can only wonder at what happened to Trump in childhood that motivates his adult attraction to filth (for example to infamous "pee tapes" that may soon be released.) One thing we can be sure of, because we can see it with our own eyes--if we have eyes to see--is that Trump and his claque are defiling America and our Constitution and Bill of Rights and the Rule of Law and basic civility.
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