“I think some are becoming fatigued by the effort needed to ignore his warped behavior and hence, worry that he is getting ‘worse’.”
Good point- and it’s a good thing for more and more people to abandon the psychic energy it takes to polish the hopeychangey fantasy.
For the rest of us, mainly FReepers & conservatives who’ve been well aware of the danger buttoned in the empty suit from the beginning,
it offers a clinical display of the development of narcissistic rage when supply and adulation are withheld.
More than anything, Narcissists fear abandonment (loss of supply).
Finely-tuned ridicule strips the mask off most effectively.
Sarah can play the role of “conservative Dorothy Parker” in that regard...with her beautiful “WTF” comment and others. It’ll help speed up the mask-stripping denouement I am expecting, though I do worry about the danger part.
He IS an arrested petulant child. Nevertheless, one with big guns and a willing mob.
For the rest of us, mainly FReepers & conservatives who’ve been well aware of the danger buttoned in the empty suit from the beginning,
it offers a clinical display of the development of narcissistic rage when supply and adulation are withheld.
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Yes, I agree. Before, he was dangerous dead-eyed happy. Now he is dangerous dead-eyed angry. I think that his administration collects other toxic narcissists like flytraps -they can’t resist the stench of decayed soul.
The real change has occurred in his capacity to harm people. Before, most of us were out of his reach. Then the Dems built a pedestal for this narcissist and placed him where even his own supporters would grow angry with him, and he with them. And handed him control of our futures.
I fear race riots would feed his ego and establish in the history books of his mind that he was not a poor president but was a victim of racism. I think he wants lasting damage as his legacy - something he can point to that he actually accomplished.(Strange that the accusations of racism just get louder AFTER the election of a minority.)
I recall just after his election seeing stacks of discounted Obama worship memorabilia. Candles, Pictures, Mirrors etc. all with his photo on it. It was too soon, I thought, for them to toss out their idols of him and wondered why they were already marked down 50% - 75%. I don’t think many of his followers ever loved him or even liked him - they thought he was going to prove something and give them something. They just loved his racial identity. (Of course there some who swooned and some who actually painted black velvet fantasy pictures of him rising out of the surf with a shirt open to reveal water cascading off his torso...*shudder*)But I think alot of swooning and sound bytes were orchestrated to worship the ethnicity, not the man.
Anyway, I noticed as I looked through the stacks of Obama worship, not one photo showed him looking into the camera - all photos were taken in profile. A big mountain of discounted Obamaware and no photos taken straight into his eyes. I think his handlers knew back then that ‘eye contact’ photos would emphasize the dead look in his eyes and that would not connect him to the voter.I think he has received instruction since then on how to try to make it look like his eyes are included in his smile by squinting because otherwise, even if his lips smile, his eyes remain dead.