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I see that Twitter disappeared my pinned thread/series. Time to recreate it then, piece by piece. It may be just as well -- on his program, @chrislhayes recently asked @SteveSchmidtSES: "How did we get here?" This series of posts from 2016 and 2017 will shed some light on it.
It started with a prediction of Trump's win, made in winter 2016: https://medium.com/@Elamika/the-wages-of-discontent-34838773a11d
This was followed by an explanation of Trump's character defect and its devastating consequences: https://medium.com/@Elamika/the-unbearable-lightness-of-being-a-narcissist-251ec901dae7
That explanation was sent out in various forms (letter to editor, etc) to most American media and many public figures, who of course ignored it: https://medium.com/@Elamika/truth-or-dare-d8b5094b5903
American media cultivated willful blindness with respect to Trump's pathology... https://medium.com/@Elamika/see-no-evil-7a05cd77778c
...preferring to follow his lead on this and other matters: https://medium.com/@Elamika/the-red-herring-of-the-candidates-physical-health-37798c3c279d
Meanwhile, we could have talked--and some of us did--about conditions that made the rise of Trump/ism inevitable:
1. The confrontation with our shadow: https://medium.com/@Elamika/a-hijacked-nation-and-the-shadow-candidate-7b96efc797cb
1. The confrontation with our shadow: https://medium.com/@Elamika/a-hijacked-nation-and-the-shadow-candidate-7b96efc797cb
2. Our loss of values: https://medium.com/@Elamika/a-matter-of-values-caf83e1a7e11
3. ...and a resulting sense of displacement: https://medium.com/@Elamika/displaced-persons-d529656161a6
4. ... and aggrieved entitlement, leading to a desire for revenge... https://medium.com/@Elamika/trumpian-victory-or-the-avengers-fractured-song-6ebe51aa0cc9
5... stoked by narcissistic rage, the fuel of destructive social movements since time immemorial: https://medium.com/@Elamika/hell-hath-no-fury-like-a-narcissist-scorned-d0e0186ea332
6. Our blindness that made us oblivious to what was happening among us: https://medium.com/@Elamika/darkness-in-visible-or-on-dangers-of-narcissistic-blindness-a47dbc6413fa
7. And our all too common desire to appease the pathological character in power which so often overrides the dictates of our conscience: https://medium.com/@Elamika/the-pivoting-on-narcissistic-collusion-or-how-evil-just-happens-c0332b890f93
To be continued, Twitter permitting.
Explanations of Trump's pathology and warnings about its dangerous consequences continued to fall on deaf ears: https://medium.com/@Elamika/there-is-something-about-donny-f65348003aba
While the wannabe tyrant grew in power, aided and abetted by his similarly disordered sycophants and followers: https://medium.com/@Elamika/tyranny-101-shock-and-awe-d51964831482
