Illustration: Donald Trump’s presidency shows how individual psychopathology and a politics of fear are deeply intertwined. Politicians who live in an angry narcissistic fog pose a clear threat to democracy and peace, and Donald Trump is a classic illustration of what this means in practice. Ian Hughes was one of the first writers to explore this relationship in a series of articles published on Transformation between 2017 and 2020.
One commentator wrote the following about Trump’s purge of FBI and DOJ:
“We have a 78-year-old, with the mentality of a five-year-old, in a place he has no business being.”
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