Wow. David Frum's tweets this morning on Trump's lying and narcissism

[highplainsdem]

This started with tweets about the new poll showing a majority of Republicans falsely believe Trump won the popular vote, a fantasy Trump encouraged with his tweeting about Clinton supposedly getting millions of illegal votes.

https://twitter.com/davidfrum

Trump’s lying about the popular vote has dangerous real-world consequences


1) Trump, a textbook case of Narcissistic Personality Disorder, will believe the lies he tells, after he tells them http://samvak.tripod.com/journal75.html


2) Meaning that Trump will live among ego-salving fantasies - a dangerous location for a president of the United States


3) Worse, Trump will surround himself by people who repeat his lies back to him: either a) abject creatives or b) sinister manipulators


4) Worse still: because the conservative media amplify Trump’s lies, the whole conservative world will lose touch with reality


5) Encouraging true believers - and compelling even pragmatists - to act en masse as if the lies were truth.


6) Among other negative consequences, this will encourage reckless political risk-taking by Republicans in Congress


7) It remains true that Republican candidates for president have won the national popular vote only once since 1988: 1 in 7 elections!


8) The party’s agenda is not popular in real-life. That would seem to suggest … caution.


9) Instead, it seems congressional Republicans are about to plunge ahead as if the country were clamoring for their program.
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10) Some congressional Republicans surely know this not to be true. They dare not act on that knowledge


11) In 1965, 1981, 2009, new presidents changed national direction with clear democratic consent.


12) 2017 bids to be as activist as those prior years - but without the clear consent. How will that end? Not well, I fear.


BTW if you haven’t yet familiarized yourself with the symptoms of Narcissistic Personality Disorder, you should http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/narcissistic-personality-disorder/basics/definition/con-20025568 …

I can't help thinking that Frum has written this to reach the more concerned Republican electors in the Electoral College.

This makes the case that Trump is bad for the Republican Party, explaining how Trump will lead them down the wrong path.

And it sandwiches that argument in between two websites about narcissistic personality disorder. Which Trump so clearly exemplifies, and which is the basis of the argument that he's mentally unfit.

[Wounded Bear]

1. I'm losing my concern about the "future of the Repub Party"...

while I think the nation needs a strong opposition party, Repub have obviously sold whatever soul they have left in the pursuit of abject power and niceties like rules and conventions be damned.

Trump is a real and present danger to the existance of the country and our democratic institutions.

[highplainsdem]

3. Personally, I'm not concerned about the GOP's future, either. But if Frum is trying to reach

the majority of electors who are Republicans, he has to point out the damage they'll be doing to their own party if they vote for Trump.

[Wounded Bear]

5. Understand....

I don't have a lot of hope that it will work, though.

[azureblue]

16. but his one more voice

to the loud chorus of warnings. Every voice helps.

[Topsound]

20. US Supreme court case Zebley 1989-1992

Why this never came up in the beginning I will never know ( maybe as I new someone this pertained to.)
Or its a fat goose for Gov. Agencies state. Wise or county.
Zebley case pertain to definition of disability for children and adults inacted by SSA. Implemented Under Ronald Regan ( hey President Obama I think he was already rolled over in his grave before this Soviet thing) term it found Children to have a more stringent definition than Adults in trying to qualify.
I dint know the exact # of those effected but alot. Do they know his was a violation as judge by the US Supreme court in 1992..
Shall we look into this as a american to help promote indep!endence or keep dependence as a form of job security.
I wonder if those affected during that period ever got justice as the Rhe US Supreme Court Stated.
So at least when the change of shift Regan to Bush
( 1989 )Republicw were in power. Bush couldnt carry on due to US Supreme court My goodness history repeats its self. wake Up Amerika.,

[Missn-Hitch]

23. Umm, yeah. Well - that's just, like...your opinion, man.

[marybourg]

32. Could you maybe edit your

post when you get home and can type on a laptop instead of your phone, so that we can like understand it? Because I can't.

[Hekate]

33. Fozzy Bear, is that you?

[Crunchy Frog]

35. I'd bet that most of them are too partisan and too brainwashed to give a F#ck.

They're part of the Frankenstein monster people like Frum helped to create.

[Cha]

2. Kick for Frum

[ailsagirl]

7. Goes double for me!!

[Cha]

26. And, a double kick it is!

ailsagirl!

[rumdude]

4. 1 in 7

Just think about that. The Rethugs are going to overreach and piss off the majority in this country. When that happens - goodbye to the wretched Rethugs.

[greymattermom]

15. We always think that but it doesn't happen

I think the voluntary military prevents it. When both men and women are drafted, folks will pay attention.

[GoCubsGo]

18. Also, as Gore Vidal said, this is the United States of Amnesia.

One would think that the near financial collapse that Dumbya and the republicans put this country through, as well as lying us into two wars, at the cost of at trillions of dollars, thousands of dead, and tens of thousands more maimed, would have destroyed them. Yet, here we go again. On steroids.

[Missn-Hitch]

24. The key word is "think". Sorry, that train left the station....never to return.

[Ligyron]

38. Crazy, isn't it?

and now for another GrOPer presidency. What do they say about the definition of insanity?

[KG]

6. piss on that guy anyway.

[Jacob Boehme]

8. Shhhhh.

If you listen real close, you’ll hear that “giant sucking sound” old Ross Perot was always talking about. But in this case, it’s a Republican on his knees taking care of business.

[Joe Bacon]

9. Too little and too late.

Dr. FrankenFrum helped create the monster that got out of control. As far as I'm concerned he's getting what he deserves--purged from the Party in a Stalinist manuver.

[Wellstone ruled]

10. Classic case of buyers remorse.

[radical noodle]

11. While I agree that most of them

unwittingly helped create this monster, I do applaud those who hold out that Trump is a maniac with no business in the White House. Frum continues to daily speak out about Trump and his unfitness to lead. We don't have to like the rest of his ideology to approve of his unwillingness to bend to the remainder of the rest of the party about Trump.

[Crunchy Frog]

36. Maybe he'll get to have a show trial.

Maybe Putin will even lease Trump a Siberian gulag to keep people like him in.

[azureblue]

12. Trump has a history of meth abuse

in prescription form, of course. That is why he acts like that.

[WinkyDink]

22. I don't believe you.

[JHB]

13. Dear Mr. Frum: 4 & 5: why the use of future tense? It's been that way for years.

Basically the entire time of your professional career. And you were part of how it got that way.

[rumdude]

14. Frum's the man

He's been against Trump from the beginning. He speaks out against every day on Twitter. Frum represents everything that Trump supporters are not: he's thoughtful, honest, and brave.

[LittleGirl]

17. We need 306 more Frums to abject to orange mango anus eom

[Hekate]

19. Frum, awhile ago, entered my short but growing list of admirable conservative patriots

Will wonders never cease

[wordpix]

30. mine, too - and may I add my bro

A republican always but a Never Trumper now and he voted for HRC

[uponit7771]

21. +1

[OKNancy]

25. For what it's worth, Frum has been a rabid Trump hater all along

It's not "buyers remorse"

I've followed him on twitter for some time now. When I first did I made a joke about hell freezing over. He is one of the most rational and thoughtful critics of Trump and the Trump followers.

[Control-Z]

27. Narcissistic Personality Disorder

is all that needs to be said to those who have experience with, or are educated about, the disorder. There is no hope or cure for the self centered, deplorable, behavior of a malignant narcissist.

[JHan]

28. Confess your sins and become a liberal David.

[wordpix]

29. get rid of the EC: #7- Repug pres candidates have won pop vote 1x since 1988 "1 in 7 elections"

"Republican candidates for president have won the national popular vote only once since 1988: 1 in 7 elections"

If that isn't enough to dump the EC, I don't know what is.

[hibbing]

31. the whole conservative world will lose touch with reality

Will? I think that happened quite a while ago.


Peace

[Crunchy Frog]

34. People in the conservative "movement" think that George Orwell was writing instruction manuals

rather than warnings.

[bucolic_frolic]

37. One wonders

if Frum's continued heavy lifting will ever get the rock to the top of the hill