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dofm • yesterday at 2:39 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

No, we won’t.

Because it isn’t about his policies (and because it’s actually quite like turning an oil tanker, especially stuff like undoing tariffs).

Trump is a malignant narcissist. He’s a deeply unusual man.

The Democratic Party had one perennial fringe candidate, Lyndon LaRouche, who was dark-sided in a way Trump is. A really nasty, scary, creepy dude who fairly arguably ran a “business cult”, the LaRouche Group, who was held at arms length by the party.

It has had a few charming “political sociopaths” in the sense of driven people who can make arbitrary choices. It recently efficiently ejected a repeated power abuser (Eric Swalwell).

But nobody like Trump. People like him are rare (and dangerous when they achieve power)


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