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The Tony Schwartz segment that just appeared on Ari Melber's show was pretty damned chilling.
I wish I had a clip for you...one will probably surface. FAR too much to paraphrase here, other than he went DEEP into the fear, paranoia, and motivation of Trump.
We are REALLY witnessing a cornered rat here.
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https://www.rawstory.com/2019/10/trump-brings-his-worst-fears-to-life-with-his-death-wish-art-of-the-deal-co-author-tony-schwartz/
“Well, I think he’s a different person, as we all are, under what he experiences and in some way rightly as a survival threat. No question that his presidency and therefore his whole sense of himself is at tremendous risk now,” Schwartz replied.
“I think as most people do, but particularly those people who have a limited repertoire, when we are under stress what we tend to do is double down. What worked for us in the past becomes a liability, becomes even in his case self-destructive,” he explained. “So aggression turns into insistence and demand and viciousness that ends up coming back on him.”
“What I see is that he’s a person who has a death wish that’s always been there. A self-destructive impulse,” Schwartz said. “The way he views the world is that nearly everyone now is out to get him. And what he does is he creates the evidence to reenforce the view. It’s like a vicious cycle. So he’s constantly making true what he in his paranoid way fears is true.”
Trump’s defense mechanism “nearly always produces exactly what it’s meant to defend against. So he’s bringing his worst fears to life by doing what he’s doing.”
“Well, I think he’s a different person, as we all are, under what he experiences and in some way rightly as a survival threat. No question that his presidency and therefore his whole sense of himself is at tremendous risk now,” Schwartz replied.
“I think as most people do, but particularly those people who have a limited repertoire, when we are under stress what we tend to do is double down. What worked for us in the past becomes a liability, becomes even in his case self-destructive,” he explained. “So aggression turns into insistence and demand and viciousness that ends up coming back on him.”
“What I see is that he’s a person who has a death wish that’s always been there. A self-destructive impulse,” Schwartz said. “The way he views the world is that nearly everyone now is out to get him. And what he does is he creates the evidence to reenforce the view. It’s like a vicious cycle. So he’s constantly making true what he in his paranoid way fears is true.”
Trump’s defense mechanism “nearly always produces exactly what it’s meant to defend against. So he’s bringing his worst fears to life by doing what he’s doing.”
