In the end, the political "P*ssy Riot" sparked by the Trump campaign since the "Donald's Freaky Friday" weekend of October 7, could serve as a subject for writers of fictional novels, material for clinical studies by psychologists and psychiatrists; the subject of white papers by sociologists, political scientists and college professors; and fodder for the comedians of Saturday Night Live and The Daily Show.
But for Trump, this outcome requires that add his run for President of the United States -- the loftiest of a life-long procession of grandiose exercises in self-validation -- to a long list of prior efforts that had also collapsed under the weight of his own hubris, including his efforts at wooing the victims of his alleged sexual assaults.
America's Sorest Loser
It's easy to imagine Trump as the kind of person who'd blow up Twitter with his list of the top 10 reasons why he's such a total hero for donating $40 bucks to "Jets for Pets" instead of "Toys' for Tots." That's because Trump's propensity for bullshitting is so deeply enshrined into his personality that he routinely pulls the wool over his own eyes. To understand this helps explain why a man who claims to be 6'4 and "blessed" with HUGE hands has what appears to be a massive Napoleon Complex, and how that disorder has affected the trajectory of his campaign. Trump's wide galaxy of character flaws extend far beyond the realm of sexual perversion alone.
It's Trump's insecurities that have produced the unique strain of deviant Republicanism that constitutes the "Trump Doctrine," an expediently fluid set of self-serving "principals" that even some RepublicanS find terrifying. Strong concern about the social and political ramifications of Trump's ideas have also been heard from a wide range of knowledgeable political observers with military and diplomatic backgrounds, and even from Democrats like former Bill Clinton campaign strategist James Carville.
With regard to Carville, whose advice that "It's the economy, stupid," became the focus of Bill Clinton's 1996 re-election campaign strategy, the crux of his warning today might be that it's not just "the misogyny stupid" that has Trump leading the Republican Party to its political Waterloo. Carville would likely argue, as have others, that it is an insular delusionist who is emotionally incapable of dealing with life's reckonings that is the problem. It is Trump himself.
It's an open question as to whether Trump's issues with insecurity might have been headed off had he been sent to a Mindfulness retreat at age 13 instead of being shipped off to a military academy. But considering how he has presented himself after nearly a year and a half in the political spotlight, it's easy to understand how a man who prides himself on his insistence on "telling it like it is," could be so extraordinarily thin-skinned when presented with his own disturbing or unflattering truths.
The savior-like grandeur implicit in his insistence that "I alone can fix " America is a malignant narcissist's rebuke to "Yes We Can." His carries the notion that defeating Donald Trump can only occur when the system is "rigged" without considering that it's the same system that carried him to the GOP nomination. He harbors a penchant for destruction so deep that compromising the integrity of his country's democratic process by refusing to accept the election's outcome should he lose becomes completely acceptable. It's as if his coping mechanisms are controlled by some manner of scorched earth, win-at-all-costs enabler that makes it okay for him to blow something up if that's what it takes to win, or just blow it up in frustration because he lacks what it takes to win.
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