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"He’s so aloof, he may not be able to handle this kind of rejection...."

It's a valid concern, but then again lots of us were fearful of his psychological background way back in the primaries. Fact is, he's had a lifetime of rejection by key formative influences. He was abandoned by his alleged biological father (on whom, tellingly, he centered the first of his autobiographies... and how many folks with a thin a resume as his have two autobiographies before the age of 50?), then by his adoptive father, then by his mother when she dumped him on his grandparents, who in turn largely left him to moulder in the embrace of a communist pedophile (who may have been, quite plausibly, his actual biological father), about whom he wrote some highly creepy poetry.

As Rush says, what could go wrong?

Against that background, it's no small wonder that the one area where he has absolutely ensured against rejection is in the field of politics. There, his record in Chicago clear through his Senate campaign was one of ice-cold, iron-fisted nullification of his opponents, including former allies and mentors. Loyalty appears not to be in his vocabulary. Even during last year's election we saw several occasions when he tossed allies and even family under the bus in his relentless pursuit of victory... and, given all the above, very likely, some sort of twisted validation.

But what could go wrong?