WaPo: There is something very wrong with Donald Trump

[Doodley]

17. I bet Trump was a little brat as a kid. Vindictive. Desperate for attention. Plain nasty.

Most spoiled little brats grow out of it. They grow up and face the real, hard world and realize that when they act like bullies, other people don't like them, when they act like assholes, other people laugh at them. It might have made them feel powerful, but as they develop a self-awareness, they discover that always getting their own way by walking over others makes them unpopular.

Even Donald Trump. A lonely man has to create invisible friends like John Barron to make himself feel good about himself. He has to fantasize that droves of Sanders supporters are flocking to him. He has to cling onto opinion polls and stand in front of huge audiences to feel good. He has to tell himself he is popular. He has to boast about his wealth and his "success."

Why? Because he doesn't like the way people have treated him all his life. He is thin-skinned and cannot tolerate any criticism. He sounds brash. He sounds tough, but every criticism is like a knife wound. He has to fight back, because he always has to prove to himself his own self-worth, because he KNOWS he is a little shit.

He has always been a little shit and always will be. After the election, when nearly all the spineless Republican establishment blame Trump and his businesses are crumbling from damage to him brand, he will go into a room on his own and feel even more lonely and think about all those gun owners who take their own lives when they hit rock bottom. Maybe he will do what disgraced gentlemen used to do, and pick up the gun and end his pathetic life. If so, millions will say good riddance to bad rubbish.