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In reply to the discussion: It takes a special kind of psychopathy to carry around this much anger when you've "won". [View all]Mike 03
(18,690 posts)The anger is the personal characteristic that worries me the most, and second to remaining out of prison, I truly think it is the second driving factor in him even running. This is all about settling scores.
And it's particularly sickening to see so much resentment in a man who has been given everything at every stage of his life, and has been permitted absolute impunity from his teen years to do anything he wants with no consequences whatsoever.
On the spectrum of Strongmen, it's preferable to have one who is not propelled by anger. I haven't studied it, but I bet if you compared autocracies across time, the most violent and unhinged ones were under the purview of an angry strongman.
Worse, Trump has surrounded himself with angry people like Stephen Miller, Steve Bannon, Kash Patel. It's going to be an orgy of viciousness.