Everywhere I turn, TV or radio, political commentators and others are discussing Donald Trump and what kind of president he is going to be. Most are basically expressing deep fear about what he is going to do, and many of those express the hope that he will behave differently from the way he did during his campaign. Another variation of this theme is the fervent belief that all citizens should “give him a chance”. These people I think see themselves as “constructive” and I think have the hope that giving him a chance might change his behavior.

For me, it is painful to hear all of it because it just sounds weak – yes, weak – and a naive response to a man who obviously thinks that he is smarter and, more importantly, tougher than everyone else. His street bullying of his 17 Republican rivals reinforces that view, and his outrageous name-calling of Hillary (along with stalking her in the second debate) reinforces that, and do you know what else reinforces this view? All of the fine statements from the sitting President, from Hillary, even from people like Elizabeth Warren who have congratulated a man who in essence said he would not do the same if he lost.

To pile on a bit, a man who never divulged his taxes, a long-time custom among presidential candidates, is making distinct, easy-to-interpret noises that his children of all people will manage his presumably vast business empire, the same bunch who are part of his transition team! Can anyone NOT imagine the grave potential – the insider information potential in this – but so far, there has been minimal outcry in opposition.

The point of this kvetching? It’s this: there is every indicator that the president-elect is a socio-path, that he has intimidated and scammed the presidential election process just as he has scammed large numbers of Americans over the past five decades. A core feature of psychopathic behavior is bullying and intimidating and breaking the accepted behavioral norms of a society and the serial assaulter of women-elect has done that in spades. Another core feature is lying – repeat, colossal distortions of the truth – made boldly and publicly and often unrepudiated – sometimes because of fear, sometimes because his behavior is so out of bounds that “nice” people who have been brought up (sometimes too harshly) to conduct themselves as members of society who respect their peers and the usual rules of that society (like stopping at red lights even if no one else is around) literally can’t see the psychopath until he has been so outrageous and has inflicted so much pain that it is unavoidably and unmistakably the case that he has ruined you and your life. The smoother psychopaths are good at professing friendship and concern for your best interests which clearly the president-elect isn’t bothering with.

A key axiom is that words, and appeals to morals and laws, justice and fairness – the standards that normal people apply to each other in disputes – simply do not work with psychopaths. They must be stopped – by action – whether it’s physical, legal, social, or political – or some combination of all of these. Otherwise, they think you are weak and don’t have the will. This is what we face now, as Trump pretends his humility after meeting with President Obama, or puts on a good face with Stahl, even as his words and body language scream that nothing has changed. Did we hear him deny that he knew about the street demonstrations and struggle to blame them on “paid agitators”?

All I ask is that in the “constructive” responses and the congratulations to Trump’s victory leaders and pundits show, in their words and appearances (body language) that they at least know who they are dealing with and will use any means necessary to impede and stump the Trump juggernaut (deliberate word selection) because there wouldn’t be so much public angst about his election if people didn’t have well-based fears about where the Trump machine wants to go.

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