charley
Registered
Donald Trump seems to be self-immolating for the nth time, and onlookers have spun themselves into a round-the-clock quandary, questioning what could be motivating him, why he doesn't just stop.
Trump can't stop, won't stop. In later years, he will likely still be tweeting away. And that's because he's an "injustice collector." Trump's strategy gelled into a singular focus: avenge an absurd collection of perceived slights and outsize victimhood.
Trump's obsession with his own victimhood is particularly remarkable coming from the heir to a real estate fortune, and his paranoia and obsession with petty revenge over winning the White House are the source of much speculation .
Republicans should stop expecting Trump to change. Injustice collectors are untreatable because they never see themselves as the problem. To argue or debate with an injustice collector entrenched in his belief system will not likely persuade him that his perceptions and conclusions are incorrect.
When the powerful are being leveled, they become scared. Petrified of losing the deference they believe they are entitled to, they cast themselves anew as the oppressed. Used to receiving preferential treatment, they suddenly feel discriminated against.
How is it that Trump, one of the most powerful men in America, can see himself as the victim? Easily. Here is a man so used to acting with impunity that even after the Central Park Five were proven to be innocent he wrote a column attacking them, and refused to apologize for calling for their death.Here is somebody so used to not being held to account that he felt free to boast about sexual assaults with people he had just met.
Trump is the archetypal cry-bully, so adjusted to everything revolving around him that only he can be the victim. Nobody else's pain matters, unless of course it can be used to teach them how much he has been suffering, too.
Donald Trump is a successful businessman. His residences and modes of transit are plated with gold. He has married three gorgeous women. He claims to have a multibillion-dollar net worth. He has mocked the disabled, women, Asians, Hispanics, Muslims, even prisoners of war.
In other words, at first blush, he is no one's idea of a victim, systemically oppressed or otherwise.
Yet he constantly rationalizes his bad behavior and political setbacks as the inevitable consequence of unfair systems and anti-Trump persecution.
To hear Trump tell it, he and his supporters are the most beaten-down victims this country has ever seen. The system is rigged to keep them from winning, designed to make the weak even weaker. They have been robbed, disenfranchised, bullied and insulted. With the odds so stacked against them, they and their leader are not only permitted but also morally obligated to punch back as ferociously as they can.
....SAD !!!
Trump can't stop, won't stop. In later years, he will likely still be tweeting away. And that's because he's an "injustice collector." Trump's strategy gelled into a singular focus: avenge an absurd collection of perceived slights and outsize victimhood.
Trump's obsession with his own victimhood is particularly remarkable coming from the heir to a real estate fortune, and his paranoia and obsession with petty revenge over winning the White House are the source of much speculation .
Republicans should stop expecting Trump to change. Injustice collectors are untreatable because they never see themselves as the problem. To argue or debate with an injustice collector entrenched in his belief system will not likely persuade him that his perceptions and conclusions are incorrect.
When the powerful are being leveled, they become scared. Petrified of losing the deference they believe they are entitled to, they cast themselves anew as the oppressed. Used to receiving preferential treatment, they suddenly feel discriminated against.
How is it that Trump, one of the most powerful men in America, can see himself as the victim? Easily. Here is a man so used to acting with impunity that even after the Central Park Five were proven to be innocent he wrote a column attacking them, and refused to apologize for calling for their death.Here is somebody so used to not being held to account that he felt free to boast about sexual assaults with people he had just met.
Trump is the archetypal cry-bully, so adjusted to everything revolving around him that only he can be the victim. Nobody else's pain matters, unless of course it can be used to teach them how much he has been suffering, too.
Donald Trump is a successful businessman. His residences and modes of transit are plated with gold. He has married three gorgeous women. He claims to have a multibillion-dollar net worth. He has mocked the disabled, women, Asians, Hispanics, Muslims, even prisoners of war.
In other words, at first blush, he is no one's idea of a victim, systemically oppressed or otherwise.
Yet he constantly rationalizes his bad behavior and political setbacks as the inevitable consequence of unfair systems and anti-Trump persecution.
To hear Trump tell it, he and his supporters are the most beaten-down victims this country has ever seen. The system is rigged to keep them from winning, designed to make the weak even weaker. They have been robbed, disenfranchised, bullied and insulted. With the odds so stacked against them, they and their leader are not only permitted but also morally obligated to punch back as ferociously as they can.
....SAD !!!
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