By way of introduction...
I am one of the American people to whom politicians fondly defer when they seek approval for...well, everything. I can no longer hear the phrase without feeling a loosening of my bowels. I am certainly not the first to cry our political system is broken. In fact, this cry is now woven into the political patchwork. For every earnest complaint of systemic dysfunction, an up-and-coming politico cries he/she is the one to fix it.And then our Quixote rushes into the grinder only to be reconstituted as villain he or she promised to slay. Donald Trump is a narcissist. This is not news. Sadly, of all the aberrant personality disorders, narcissism is seen as annoying and irritating but not dangerous. Let the narcissist be self-absorbed. So what if the narcissist is an egomaniac? What harm is there in that? True narcissists, such as Trump, believe they are above the petty ruminations and traffic of we ordinary folk. Since they are special, pedestrian institutions such as laws do not apply ...