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In reply to the discussion: He's decompensating physically and psychiatrically [View all]nolabear
(42,007 posts)Youre right. With all the caveats about not diagnosing en absentia, hes an astoundingly public figure both in word and physically, and the deterioration unmasks the long-standing psychopathology. Theres the fact that he has increasing flights of thought, the failure of filters, and then theres what he says in those flights. He cant keep the false front going any more, and the bellowing of the crowd acts as his frame of reference (and a batshit crazy one, to use a professional term) as his own breaks down.
He doesnt seem to have much orientation as to time and place, skating along minute by minute and using his cunning to read the situation and respond to whats gone on in the last minute or so. Thats why, I think, he answers questions as he does. He grabs onto a small piece and then the flight of ideas back to his familiar phrases and complaints kicks in.
He, the mob and the enablers are all one entity, and if any one breaks down the entity fails. That these three parts are holding this country hostage for this long is, in a psychosocial sense, utter madness.