I long had a pinned tweet, written in 2016, where I called Trump a fundamentally "sane egotist". I deleted it accidentally while trying to unpin it, but that was my thought, after attending a lot of campaign events, paying attention, and knowing people who knew Trump in NY. 1/
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A liberal shrink asked me a few days ago if I still believed that and I replied instantly "no. " For me Trump had badly lost the thread after Nov. 3rd, and my occasional writing about him evolved from he's acting crazy and should stop for his own sake to actively hostile. 2/
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But writers I usually agree with (Andrew Sullivan, Dougherty) were hostile to Trump long before, thought he was fundamentally unfit for office. I thought that position was overwrought. What I'm grappling with now was whether they were always right, or whether Trump was 3/
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fundamentally unsuited for office from the beginning. Alternative view is that while what we've seen since 11/3 was always latent in him--as mental illness can be latent in someone functioning well, losing "triggered" him so to speak, shifting the balance between a plausible 4/
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if obviously flawed president (I had rated him C+ in endorsing him in October) to someone obviously unfit for office who should never have been elected. I'm sure most of my readers are certain of their answers, but I am not and will continue to grapple. /Fin
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Given Trump's psychological make-up, it was always predictable that if he lost he would become unhinged (I wrote about this as "the Samson option" back in 2016). This Tucker Carlson story is telling about Trump's character.pic.twitter.com/oMYfU231gY
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