It would be a good read and the point of his books is to educate us about psychopathy because they walk among us and many gravitate to positions of opportunism and power. Not all of them become mass killers. Dr. Hare wants people to be able to understand how psychopaths can use charm and other skills to gain trust and advantage in order for us to identify them before we allow them to devastate our lives.
Dr. Hare distinguishes between sociopaths and psychopaths as being born, socialized, or both. In the case of Trump he was clearly born a psychopath and had the advantage of wealth and power. His parents did struggle with him, though, and we have evidence of early conduct disorder. Narcissism is often a characteristic of psychopaths and it seems too many got snagged over that obvious facet of Trump's personality even though he is much, much more than just a narcissist.
Too late for us with Trump, though. Like you said he revealed himself during the campaign and with the help of others (lots of snakes in suits) gained the office of POTUS. The extent of cheating, hacking, intimidation, coercion, and other methods of manipulation (including criminal) are still actively engaged even as we are learning about the extent of what the hell happened.
We need to cut these parasites away before the devastation they cause does us all in. This must be our number one concern, We can't accomplish anything else until we rid ourselves of the major blood-suckers.
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