William Saletan makes the case, conclusively, the Donald J. Trump is just nuts. The technical term for it is batshit insane. It's not that he's a liar, and it's not that he's a bullshitter who doesn't care whether anything he says is true. He really believes everything he says. He believes he won the 2020 election. He believes the Canadian people will happily become the 51st state. He believes the Gazans will be relocated to Arab countries, the U.S. will take over the territory, and redevelop it as a resort. He believes that USAID is a totally corrupt fraud. He believes the people of Greenland want it to become a U.S. dominion and that Denmark will sell it. He believes that tariffs will pay for his tax cuts and increased military spending, and that foreign governments pay them. And so on. He actually believes all this.
He believes all this because the way his mind works is that whatever he wants to be true, is true. That's an extreme narcissism that becomes a form of psychosis. Oh, and by the way, he's more popular now than he has ever been.
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If this is true, then I would say either that insanity is highly overrated or sanity is highly underrated.
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