tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post4986219488562217916..comments2023-11-22T01:14:54.298-08:00Comments on amor mundi: Donald Trump Is A Sexist PigDale Carricohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02811055279887722298noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post-81551302088074353742016-06-12T09:49:33.182-07:002016-06-12T09:49:33.182-07:00Ooh, he said the N word.
http://www.nytimes.com/...Ooh, he said the N word.<br /><br /><br />http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/10/opinion/the-unity-illusion.html<br />---------------<br />The Unity Illusion<br />David Brooks<br />JUNE 10, 2016<br /><br />. . .<br /><br /><br />Conservatives believe that politics is a limited activity.<br />Culture, psychology and morality come first. . .<br /><br />[Paul] Ryan’s argument inverts all this. It puts political positions<br />first and character and morality second. Sure Trump’s a scoundrel,<br />but he might agree with our tax proposal. Sure, he is a racist,<br />but he might like our position on the defense budget.<br />Policy agreement can paper over a moral chasm. . .<br /><br />The classic conservative belief, by contrast, is that character<br />is destiny. Temperament is foundational. Each candidate has to<br />cross some basic threshold of dependability as a human being<br />before it’s even relevant to judge his or her policy agenda.<br />Trump doesn’t cross that threshold. . .<br /><br />Trump, by his very essence, undermines cooperation, reciprocity,<br />solidarity, stability or any other component of unity. He is a<br />lone operator, a disloyal diva, who is incapable of horizontal<br />relationships. He has demeaned and humiliated everybody who<br />has tried to be his friend. . .<br /><br />Some conservatives believe they can educate, convert or civilize<br />Trump. This belief is a sign both of intellectual arrogance<br />and psychological naïveté.<br /><br />The man who just crushed them is in no mood to submit to them.<br />Furthermore, Trump’s personality is pathological. . .<br /><br />He has always behaved exactly as he does now: the constant flow<br />of insults, the endless bragging, the casual cruelty, the need<br />to destroy allies and hog the spotlight. “Donald was the child<br />who would throw the cake at the birthday parties,” his brother<br />Robert once said.<br /><br />Psychologists are not supposed to diagnose candidates from afar,<br />but there is a well-developed literature on narcissism that<br />tracks with what we have seen of Trump. . .<br /><br />Unable to know themselves, or truly love themselves, they hunger for<br />a never-ending supply of admiration from outside. They act at all<br />times like they are performing before a crowd and cannot rest<br />unless they are in the spotlight.<br /><br />To make decisions, these narcissists create a rigid set of external<br />standards, often based around admiration and contempt. Their valuing<br />criteria are based on simple division — winners and losers, victory<br />or humiliation. They are preoccupied with luxury, appearance or<br />anything that signals wealth, beauty, power and success. . .<br /><br />Incapable of understanding themselves, they are also incapable of<br />having empathy for others. . . Other people are simply to be put<br />to use as suppliers of admiration or as victims to be crushed as<br />part of some dominance display. . .<br />====<br /><br /><br />Let them throw cake. ;->jimfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04975754342950063440noreply@blogger.com