Topic: WorldNetDaily
Last year, WorldNetDaily columnist Gina Loudon was not shy about playing armchair psychologist to declare that President Obama is a psychopath, largely on the false claim that "Obama has golfed more than any other president." Of course, all Loudon was doing was dressing up her own borderline-psychopathic hatred of Obama as a purpored psychatric evaluation.
Now Loudon is training her armchair-diagnosis skills at Donald Trump, who arguably displays signs of mental disorders -- and she can't find a thing wrong with the guy.
In her Sept. 13 WND column, London concedes an obvious issue -- Trump's narcissism. But, she assures us, Trump is no sociopath like Hitler, and besides, Reagan was a narcissist too:
The important distinction here is that those who lead through strength to achieve evil are deranged. Hitler was sociopathological. Trump seems mentally sound. Though mental assessment is impossible without true clinical testing and diagnosis (and is even then, very elusive), I haven’t observed, nor have I heard of any other mental health professionals observing that Trump is in any way unstable.
Were great leaders like Ronald Reagan, Teddy Roosevelt and Margaret Thatcher just as narcissistic and driven as Trump? Likely yes. Were they better at hiding it? Certainly. Decorum was different then. And that was before political correctness had become the major enemy of the American people. Trump intuitively saw the frustration of Main Street over the tyranny and oppression of political correctness, and he capitalized on it, masterfully.
Yet if you go back to her Obama-bashing 2014 column, the psychopathic qualities she ascribes to Obama certainly apply to Trump as well:
Psychopaths often act audaciously, without regard for those affected. They get away with actions that others in their positions haven’t, because of their ability to remain calm even when committing atrocities, and their ability to manipulate whole groups of people.
But Loudon gives Trump's audaciousness a pass, declaring that "Trump takes the hits for the heretofore 'unspeakable truths,' while other conservatives in the race have the luxury of looking composed, deliberative, presidential."
Loudon caps off her column with this ringing endorsement:
Trump has eviscerated the predictions of those who have traditionally been good at guessing the rise and fall of presidential candidates. I am going to take a stab anyway. My prediction is this: As long as he is loyal to the three principles he has made clear in his run thus far, his supporters will be loyal to him, and he can win. If he does win, or he is part of a winning team, the world could see a return of Reagan's "Shining City on a Hill." It has been a rough road back to America's rugged exceptionalism, but it could come back. And that could be huge.
Somehow, the things that made Obama a psychopath to Loudon make Trump a lovable potential president. Go figure.
