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It is completely understandable that stating trump, his minions, henchmen or co-conspirators are entering some kind of “stealth mode” seems at best counter-intuitive, and at worst as manipulative and ridiculous as trump claiming he only wants to be a “one day” dictator, if he can somehow lie, cheat and trick his way into the U.S. Presidency, again.
If you have assessed the psychology of grandiose narcissism and trump’s personal history and it tells you that nearly every second of every day the insecure braggart is virtually incapable of keeping his big mouth shut for long, just as he is psychologically incapable of ever surrendering any power willingly, let alone dictatorial powers over America, you would be correct. It certainly would be illogical to think that someone who is psychologically incapable of ever admitting they are wrong would ever give up the awesome power of forcing others to believe them.
The famous quote by Abraham Lincoln seems to apply.
“Nearly all men can stand adversity but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.”
Ironically, this often used quote was apparently never said by Lincoln. It was said about him. However, because it is about Lincoln, it makes the point just as true despite often being wrongly attributed for over a century.
Here is the quote about “Honest Abe.”
"If you want to find out what a man is to the bottom, give him power. Any man can stand adversity — only a great man can stand prosperity. It is the glory of Abraham Lincoln that he never abused power only on the side of mercy. He was a perfectly honest man. When he had power, he used it in mercy ..." - Robert Ingersoll - Jan. 16, 1883, Washington, D.C. speech.
What we can now say without a doubt is that trump is not an honest man, nor is he a man with any mercy, and when he had Presidential power, he never found a bottom too low he would not use and abuse to keep it. He literally used every ounce of his power to help and serve himself, every single time. If you know of an exception, please post it in the comments because so far none have been found.
Additionally, based on the slavish and sycophantic behaviors of the trump cult, “conservative” media and the GOP towards him, what we now see is that something was missing from Lincoln’s famous power test. The missing piece is a psychological understanding of what happens to those who have been groomed, propagandized and gaslit away from truth and reality, and into believing narcissistic abuse is the best use of power, because they grade this test on a completely different curve.
We now know and are currently experiencing that these poor judges of character reach such a state of mental lockdown that most will stand by their echo-chamber’s manipulating and nefarious narcissists over truth, honor and reality until death do they part, unless they can somehow be brought back into the light of reality from their dark primal programming of relentless fear, insecurity, selfishness and greed.
Here in Part I of the Stealth Mode series, we recognize that every predator in nature (including the human kind) has some form of camouflage. While sometimes noted in the past, trump’s pathological brand of stealth often seems to be missed, forgotten or is repeatedly fallen for by most of the MSM, almost every single time.
The conventional wisdom is this happens because of MSM’s desire to maintain their access to him due to a for-profit, clickbait driven mentality, which seems to generate a self-perpetuating willful blindness to the political psyop trump has been running on them since at least 2015. Yes, trump’s predator’s camouflage has been acknowledged and has continued to hide in plain sight for a very long time.
Essentially, trump’s version of stealth mode comes from him constantly “flooding the zone” of the news cycle with shocking and horrific lies and insanities to distract from all his other shocking and horrific disqualifying lies and insanities, whenever the MSM starts to focus the public’s attention on one of his worst and most disqualifying crimes.
It is truly fascinating how easy it is for trump to trigger the MSM into bouncing from subject to subject by putting out a new weekly, daily or hourly outrage that takes over the news cycle, so they rarely land on anything truly revealing or substantial about his massive psychological failings, compulsions or dysfunctions that should disqualify anyone from ever getting close to sniffing the U.S. Presidency, let alone be allowed to be the likely nominee of the Republican Party.
Gee, why would he want to distract the media with his disqualifying dog whistle use of nazi propaganda such as calling humans he dislikes “vermin.” Of course the last thing trump wants is having the MSM focusing on his last-second chickening out of testifying at his own trial. Could the latest outrage have anything to do with alpha-male trump insisting to the American people that he would defend himself to the bitter end on the stand, only to cowardly “cut and run” from testifying, again?
Regardless of whether you believe trump’s dictator comments are a form of voter predator stealth distraction from his use of nazi terminology or the exposure of how his repeated legal macho bluster inevitably becomes cowardice, it is a near certainty that trump’s pathological narcissism will keep him repeating he wants to be a dictator, then deny it, rinse, repeat, and flood the media with more new shocking distractions to send them back to ambulance and clickbait chasing, again.
As the above cartoon helps make obvious, from the very start, every time trump is in trouble by something he has said or done, he just spews a new shocking toxic outrage, which causes the clickbait MSM to push aside the last story to jump to the new story, and that last story is often forgotten, again.
In effect, this is trump’s version of stealth mode because it keeps the media from focusing on any one of his disqualifying predatory flaws, narcissist vulnerabilities or other psychological weak points that America’s enemies keep exploiting for fun, profit and power, at the American people’s expense.
Pro-tip: At the core of every narcissist is a petty tyrant begging to be set free with the power to control and punish a programmed, unsuspecting and/or defenseless public, and they certainly do not care who or what needs to be sacrificed for them to achieve or keep this narcissist’s ultimate fantasy. So, whenever a narcissist says they want to be a dictator, you can take it to the bank that they are revealing one of their core truths.
It is also a narcissist’s tell that the reasons trump gives for why a dictatorship is needed are completely invalid. Clearly, he does not need to “build a wall” when he claims he has already done it, nor does he need to dictate “drill drill drill” when there is a record-level of domestic oil and gas production under Joe Biden.
Side-Note: It is a bit strange that Republicans like trump consistently blame Democrats for high gas prices while always forgetting to mention that main GOP owners like those who drill domestic gas and oil put it on the open global market, where these and other greedflation corporations determine price and destination.
Ergo, America will never be “energy independent” in the free market oil and gas system the GOP owners say they require to be profitable, no matter what the politicians they own (aka stealth lobbyists) promise the people, and “drill, drill, drill” only benefits the oil and gas companies who are primary funders of the RINO Party.
In other words, trump’s main justifications for his short-term dictatorship are total BS and self-serving logical fallacies, which forces one to conclude that the whole “one day” dictatorship idea is yet another attempted lie to help trump to attain dictator status. If trump’s “one day” dystopian narcissist fantasy somehow happens, it will obviously be followed by a refusal to give up his new powers, just like everything else he has acquired related to his entire greedy, selfish, and wannabe authoritarian life.
As everyone on the planet knows by now, trump himself has still never given up claiming he won the Presidency in 2020, keeps doing everything in his power to steal it back, and demands that anyone who wants to work with him or be part of the GOP’s future must also falsely declare he was the 2020 winner, when he clearly was not.
Therefore, anyone who thinks trump would ever give up dictatorial powers is a liar, a fool, a lunatic, or all of the above. Indeed, someone who thinks a man who has never willingly given up anything of value his entire life would ever give up dictator powers once he had them is brain broke, talking crazy talk, and/or part of a psyop.
However, just to make completely clear what a “Big Lie” the idea of a “day one” dictatorship is, to build a wall, “shutdown the border” or erect and maintain what are essentially racist concentration camps again, it should be obvious to even MAGA Dunning-Krugers that absolutely none of it can be done dictatorially within a day, a week, a year or a Presidential term.
Strangely, oil and gas exploration, permitting, drilling and extraction are also far beyond one day timelines, while their mismanagement damage can last for generations and reduce the Earth’s habitability for humans, but then know-it-all wannabe dictator trump is always only thinking about himself so he has no understanding and zero Fs to give over any environmental damage outside of what negatively impacts his own properties.
It is also no coincidence that both historically and statistically, there are virtually no known “one day” dictators beyond those murdered on their first day. To the exact contrary, the known history of dictators is they do whatever they want, whenever they want, usually just for their own benefit, and never give up power until they die, are defeated or dethroned.
Empirical psychology tells us that if trump is every bit of the malignant narcissist he appears to be, there is no doubt he will be far more dictatorial than the first time, because malignant means “progressively gets worse,” and he did indeed get progressively worse as President.
More terrifyingly, a new trump administration will be far more effective at destroying our rights, freedoms and democracy because his rogues gallery of authoritarian swamp creatures has already stress-tested constitutional and legal guardrails for four years.
That means the MAGA authoritarian conspirators who want to destroy our Founding Fathers’ democracy now know where most of its weaknesses are and will have the power to destroy it if trump’s “flood the zone'' stealth mode keeps the media and freedom-loving American people from rejecting him again, due to one of his many disqualifications and total lack of psychological fitness for any “public service” job.
If elected, trump’s apparent malignant narcissist psychology will once again have the power to wipeout the human race for daring to defy or dethrone him, which will once again make him an existential threat to the survival of the human race. No one doubts hitler would have used nukes if he had them and it has been widely reported that he wanted the German people to suffer more at the end of WWII for letting him lose, which is consistent with the vindictive psychology of trump and almost every other malignant narcissist.
We know this because Holocaust survivor & psychologist Erich Fromm coined the term malignant narcissist to describe the psychology of hitler & stalin in 1964. He described the condition as “the most severe pathology and the root of the most vicious destructiveness and inhumanity,” as well as a "severe mental sickness" representing "the quintessence of evil.”
What free societies better understand with a quickness is that this compulsive, mutually destructive, delusional narcissist pathology is at the core of almost every authoritarian and dictator’s true nature, and trump has relentlessly appeared to have exhibited every malignant narcissist behavior in spades as well. In fact, trump appears to check every box of both an NPD and ASPD diagnosis, and it is still shocking how few in the MSM come close to teaching the public about this most dangerous reality.
In other words, we have seen the malignant narcissist as “Dear Leader” movie many times before throughout history, so there is no doubt that when one takes power, they will become one of the most deadly and tyrannical “leaders” in human history.
As recently as 2016-2020, the U.S. got a very small taste of what kind of dictatorial lawlessness trump wanted but he was usually stopped when it really mattered because there were still a few sane adults in the room to stop him. The lesson trump took away was to only hire loyalists, so there will be almost no one left to stop the “mad king” from dooming us all if he is given a second opportunity.
Conclusion
Surprise, surprise, just yesterday trump was again using nazi and ku klux klan language at a rally with the classic racist trope of, “the other” is “poisoning the blood of our country.” Once again, as trump deploys shock and awe racist rhetoric, the MSM forgets its own reporting from the day before that a whole bunch of America’s top Russian secrets (last seen in trump’s orbit) are “missing,” and nobody knows where they are.
Gee, what could be worse than terrifying independent voters by having the MSM report that trump is using nazi propaganda again. Hint, treason is worse. Whatever the reason, it quickly got the MSM news cycle off of trump almost certainly gifting America’s biggest secrets to his superior narcissist putin, as well as getting them off his dictator comments, again.
It is almost a magic trick how trump can throw out some more racist and/or nazi propaganda red meat and the carnivorous lemmings of the mainstream media will once again be fooled into forgetting all about Russia, treason, insurrection, dictatorship and the criminal enterprise trump once ran from the White House. Indeed, trump’s stealth mode of “flooding the zone” with a constant rotation of the same old shocking distractions has the MSM reflexively running our democracy off a cliff instead of focusing on what it will take to save it. Get you sh*t together MSM or go extinct with our freedoms and democracy.
In recent days, trump’s use of nazi propaganda has made it crystal clear what America’s 2024 voting choices are.
Thankfully in our current circumstance, we still have a good chance of stopping one of America’s worst authoritarian oligarchs from being “elected” if we can stay strong, think strategically and come together, but we should also be massively afraid and motivated by how close this epically ignorant, self-serving, easily manipulated, biblically broken narcissist loser is to becoming President, again.
Be sure to subscribe if you want to receive notice of the next part in this Stealth Mode series. Next we will explore a completely different form of existential narcissist threat and psychology that is foundational to how the Republican Party got this far down the narcissist rabbit hole, and how it is currently being used against all of us in politics, business and life by psychologically damaged, disordered and/or broken people.
It must just be a coincidence that it is almost always these types of malignantly disordered, dark personalities that tend to lead every Orwellian and Machiavellian-level conspiracy around the globe, with the ultimate goal of stealing every country from its people.
Reviewing the psychological defense class, When To Believe Narcissists should provide a deeper understanding of those rare times when these serial and pathological liars reveal their deepest truths, such as thinking just like a nazi, being afraid of testifying in their own defense despite their bluster, or fantasizing about being a dictator of any kind. Most Cluster B personality disorders will compulsively and eternally drive the narcissist to be all the authoritarian they can be, until there is a cure, which science is not anywhere near close to creating, so please be warned.
What I find truly terrifying is that 33% of the country will vote for him because they need their powerful daddy figure. They don't understand how badly they will be harmed by Trump. They would lose whatever federal aid they are receiving. Medicare, gone. Disability, gone. Social Security, gone. I think the press needs to cover that reality repeatedly. They seriously need the counter programming. Oh, and the Republicans are working tirelessly in the background to make it harder to vote and easier to cheat. They will stop at nothing to get Trump installed in the White House again.
Robert Ingersoll was one of the greatest anti-authoritarian thinkers in American history; ranking alongside Thomas Paine. He's been largely erased, however, bc he was best known for his atheism. Thanks for calling him forward again.