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3. There is one difference. Trump's total lack of empathy and failure to even be able to feign it,
Fri Feb 12, 2021, 07:46 AM
Feb 2021

along with his full-blown, uncontained malignant narcissism makes him the more dangerous and psychopathic figure. That does not diminish Cheney's grotesque cunning manipulation (a man who has haunted my nightmares for decades) and Bush* defects that fueled his power lust and similar need to "show up Daddy" at our expense.

Trump is cunning, but not intelligent to the level of the most "successful" evil authoritarians in history. But those who share his traits, yet are able to direct their own inner "voices," and devastating insecurities will take his roadmap and destroy this country.

From Bush* to Trump was a linear path. But that path to destruction will be exponential with the next "Trump-wannabe."

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