When a nation elects a mentally damaged imp as a leader, there will be serious prices to be paid- in terms of national stability, the economy, health policy and civil liberties. The U.S. is just finding that out now, as the Germans did after enabling Adolf Hitler to reach Chancellor in 1933. In each case, Trump and Hitler, voters made the same error: putting into power a malignant necrophilous personality.
We owe it to Harvey Hornstein in his book 'Cruelty & Kindness: A New Look At Altruism and Aggression' for elaborating the internal dynamics of this personality and also tying it inextricably to conservative and authoritarian tendencies. The aspect of negative social exclusivity is also why you can immediately recognize the necrotic person by his putdowns of all those he considers inferior or weaker than himself. In most cases he will assert his type is invariably "stronger", "tougher", "more moral", more "law abiding", "more patriotic".
Hornstein's profile of the necrotic personality (p. 41) is especially chilling:
"(These) intolerant, prejudiced, authoritarian people are ill at ease. The baggage of their youth is filled with inescapable hates and fears. Mistrusting their own impulses, they are wary of others and the impulses they might possess. Their world becomes a jungle which must be carefully scrutinized because it is filled with human beings who harbor the 'evil' that they painfully learned to deny in themselves."
More recent psychologists, e.g. Dr. Bandy X. Lee, have also warned about Donald Trump. In her book 'The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump"- Dr. Lee warned that Trump - if elected again (as he was last November) could easily turn his rage against the people - including his own MAGA voters- if he believed they were not giving him due adulation. Adolf Hitler also turned against the German people at the end of WW II, inviting his underlings to destroy what was left of Berlin after he himself took his life in the bunker. "They don't deserve me!" He roared.
We're now reminded of these psychotic retributional ruminations in EJ Dionne's WAPO piece, Trump Confronts A Backlash of the Reasonable' . Which may also be framed as 'Trump Confronts A Backlash Of the Finally Smart'. How else interpret things as Trump's poll numbers crater? As Dionne writes:
"Many of his former voters see him as distracted by personal obsessions and guilty of overreach, even when they sympathize with his objectives. These supporters also see him breaking promises he made, notably on not messing with their access to health care.
Some abuses are too blatant to be ignored. A recent The Economist/You Gov poll found that 56 percent of Americans said Mr. Trump was using his office for personal gain; only 32 percent didn’t. A similar 56 percent saw Mr. Trump as directing the Justice Department to go after people he saw as his political enemies; just 24 percent didn’t.
A great many Americans who helped put Mr. Trump in office have absorbed what’s happened since. They may not be glued to every chaotic twist of this presidency, but they do pay attention and have concluded, reasonably, that this is not what they voted for."
Dionne seeks to put this in perspective by asking: How many? Then elaborating:
"Let’s take Mr. Trump’s 49.8 percent of the 2024 popular vote as a base line and compare it with his approval ratings. A New York Times analysis of public polling this month found his net approval rating had dropped to 42 percent. A A.P./NORC poll and a Gallup poll pegged it at 36 percent. This suggests that 15 to 25 percent of his voters have changed their minds."
That is a significant amount of mind changing, and Dionne understands he owes it to his readers to further explain:
"I think of these shifts as the triumph of reasonableness — and not because I agree with where these fellow citizens have landed (although I do). I’m buoyed by the capacity of citizens to absorb new facts and take in information even when it challenges decisions they previously made. It turns out that swing voters are what their label implies. The evidence of their own lives and from their own eyes matters."
That is a point I've repeatedly belabored in other posts, even asking as recently as April whether supporters had finally acknowledged buyer's remorse, and being frustrated they had not, i.e.
This itself dovetailed with a passage Peggy Noonan wrote in her weekend WSJ column (p. A13):
"The president's supporters have for ten years put up with his babyish obsession with insulting people and they think of it as 'the Trump tax'. The price you pay for getting someone bold and tough. But his hate-stoking now, in an era of political violence is going to get someone hurt.
In his Truth Social post Tuesday night he used criminal language about the press- news outlets and reporters, calling them 'seditious', perhaps even treasonous'"
Adding:
"They libel and demean THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. They are true enemies of the people, and we should do something about that."
Again, this tirade on his Trash Social showing not only his criminal nature (after all he's the first convicted felon president) but also that he has several screws loose. Noonan headed up her piece with 'Trump May Be Losing His Touch', but in truth it's more apropos to say this necrophilious toad IS losing his mind! In fact, not even a day after Rob Reiner's death on Sunday Trump lashed out at him,
Trump levels political attack on Rob Reiner after his killing | AP News
The AP piece noting:
"Donald Trump on Monday blamed Rob Reiner’s outspoken opposition to the president for the actor-director’s killing, delivering the unsubstantiated claim in a shocking post that seemed intent on decrying his opponents even in the face of a tragedy.
The statement, even for Trump, was a shocking comment that came as police were still investigating the deaths of the beloved director and his wife as an apparent homicide."
Now, seriously, no truly sane person - far less a president- conducts himself in such a barbaric fashion. So one must attribute it - if one is honest - to this guy not being all there, as in compos mentis. To be blunt, we have a batshit crazy buffoon leading this country and the people (including his people) are beginning to notice it. This, as well as his unnerving refusal to admit unaffordability in thousands of items, is why his approval is tanking (Noonan cites 31% in an AP-NORC poll last Thursday.) So the media, press noting the tanking his him truly going after his own people as well as the press which he accuses of "treason". Why? Because they are reporting facts not his delusions.
This collapse of support I also anticipated, because I knew eventually even the hardest core MAGAs would eventually tire of his rabid antics - whether deporting innocent workers at Home Depot, having his ICE paramilitary masked goons chasing workers in lettuce fields, or grabbing teachers out of classes. As even Noonan put it in her WSJ column:
"Don't arrest the poor guy working the line inn a second job at the chicken processing plant. Americans don't want that guy thrown out."
All this has proven to be a negation of widespread claims (a year ago) that his win represented a fundamental realignment in American politics. It couldn't have been because mentally functional people knew what Trump was from his first term, even if desperate voters had forgotten.
Besides which I always believed a fraction of MAGA Trumpers would eventually come to see the reality that Trump had simply conned these (mostly low information voters) by his torrent of campaign lies, e.g.
Of course, a highlight of the necrophilious personality is that as their grandiosity expands - as Trump has with his fawning cabinet meetings- so does his virulence if he's not granted the proper adulation. Thus, The New Yorker also features an article last weekend: 'Trump Angry At Americans For Not Appreciating His Greatness'.
Here the New Yorker delves even further into why this infantile, demented excuse for a leader is so peeved at the populace. Noting Dotard's "aggrieved astonishment" he's not having his balls licked like his pathetic cabinet does in his weekly staff meetings. Even spouting this petulant, extended crap on his Trash Social app:
Meanwhile, as more and more former supporters are finally wising up to how they've been played, we read:
"the MAGA prescription for the GOP in the remaining three years of the Trump presidency is to hew ever more closely to his wishes and stand proudly in his enormous shadow."
Which will be a recipe for their cult's own rapid collapse, starting with the refusal to support the Democratic solution to health care- including extension of the Biden-era ACA subsidies - even a couple year's extension. Instead we see the Reeps bloviating about using "market" solutions like "Health Savings Accounts" which are really only useful for the relatively well off and healthy.
Finally, The New Yorker piece acknowledges:
"If his current grumpiness about public opinion persists or even intensifies, Trump would not be the first leader to be undone by the sense that his country didn’t deserve him. .... It’s going to be a long three years if he simply cannot adjust to adverse public opinion and grows contemptuous of the people whose adulation he believes he has earned."
Which perfectly echoes another necrophilious personality: Adolf Hitler. Americans - the sane and awake ones - recognize disgraceful and reprehensible rhetoric and behavior when they see it. They see it in Trump and this is a major reason - apart from his failure to acknowledge current high prices reality - that millions are now deserting the orange swine.
See Also:
As Donald Trump ate his crab cake lunch inside the White
House last month, conservative pollster Mark Mitchell tried to explain that
there was a disconnect between what the administration seemed to be focused on
and what Trump’s passionate base of supporters want to see.
“Sir, you got shot at the Butler rally,” Mitchell said,
invoking the “really strong optics” of Trump raising his fist in defiance after
the assassination attempt in Pennsylvania in July 2024.
“You said, ‘Fight, fight, fight.’ But nobody ever clarified what that means,” Mitchell continued. “And right now, you’re fight-fight-fighting Marjorie Taylor Greene and not actually fight-fight-fighting for Americans.”
by Sarah K. Burris | December 14, 2025 - 6:45am | permalink
Pulitzer-winning conservative columnist and former Reagan speechwriter Peggy Noonan has been critical of President Donald Trump, describing him in her latest Wall Street Journal column as a rocket "going down" or "sideways."
Writing Friday, Noonan noticed the shocking new AP-NORC poll showing that Trump's approval on the economy and immigration has “fallen substantially” with just 31% of Americans approving his handling of the economy. It's a nine-point drop since March. His Immigration approval has fallen 11 points, to 38%.
Given the recent off-year losses in 2025, the midterm elections don't appear to be as strong for Republican candidates as they would hope.
"In fairness, 11 months as president is long enough to get on everyone’s nerves—to disappoint your fans and infuriate your foes," Noonan said as a caveat. "But he’s in a fix, surrounded by mood shifts, challenges and bad signs."
And:
by Alex Henderson | December 15, 2025 - 6:08am | permalink
In his New York Times column and frequent appearances on MS NOW, journalist David French isn't shy about attacking President Donald Trump from the right. Like other Never Trump conservatives — from attorney George Conway to MS NOW's Nicolle Wallace to The Lincoln Project's Rick Wilson — French believes that Trump and the MAGA movement have been terrible for the GOP and terrible for conservatism.
But French examines MAGA's belief system in his December 14 column for the Times. MAGA, according to French, believes that Trump is fighting to save the United States from a "death spiral" — and that combination of anger and "despair" is one of the things that makes MAGA and the "New Right" so dangerous.
"In this telling," French explains, "the 'strong men' of the American past had created a glorious and powerful nation. Our peace and prosperity had spawned a weak and feckless generation that had squandered America's strength and cultural identity, and now, it was time for hard men to arise to reclaim what was lost. This view of America's glorious past is indispensable to understanding MAGA's appeal — and the extremism of MAGA youth. After all, the slogan, 'Make America Great Again' implies the loss of greatness."
And:
What Rob Reiner said about Donald Trump
And:
Are Trump Voters Ready To Admit 'Buyer's Remorse' After Worst Market Wipe Out Since March, 2020?
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