A new poll of registered voters helps explain why we're seeing more dangerously psychotic manifestations from Trump lately. His approval has sunk to 38%. And all the national polls show Trump losing-- including, but not pictured below-- the private polls from Trump's own campaign. The 5 polls, on average, show him losing by a tad over 8%. It's a Trump referendum... and voters don't want him in office again:The state polls are also miserable for Trump. The only swing state he's leading in is Iowa-- with an average over 3 polls of 3.5%. In blue states like California (down 23 points), Connecticut (down 23 points), New Jersey (down 19 points) and New York (down 25.6 points). At least he's ahead in Texas-- if only by 1 point in the most recent poll.
• Arizona- minus 3+• Florida- minus 3+• Michigan- minus 4+• Nevada- minus 7.5• New Hampshire- minus 6• North Carolina- minus 4• Ohio- minus 3• Pennsylvania- minus 6+• Virginia- minus 3.8• Wisconsin- minus 1.6
CNN reported that the survey found that "a growing majority of Americans feel racism is a big problem in the country today and that the criminal justice system in America favors whites over blacks. More than 8 in 10 also say that the peaceful protests that have spread throughout the nation following the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police officers are justified. Americans now consider race relations as important a campaign issue as the economy and health care, according to the survey." Less than a third of the country thinks Trump us doing a good job in regard to race relations.And back to those manifestations of psychosis I mentioned above. Prominent psychiatrist Dr. Lance Dodes warned that "as Trump sinks into 'paranoid rage,' he will likely seek to cancel or overturn the 2020 election. This could be quite a challenge. Chauncey DeVega, who interviewed Dodes, noted that "Donald Trump is a destroyer, not a healer. Given his tendencies toward authoritarianism, even fascism, Trump is only capable of sowing more division in a nation convulsing in pain and anger over the murder of George Floyd, the resulting explosion of police violence and what that reveals about our extreme levels of social inequality and broader culture of cruelty... Considered in total, Donald Trump's threats against the American people, and the choices he has made that have inflamed the country's pain and grievances and anger, are part of a much larger pattern of behavior. Trump is addicted to violence. He encourages and revels in police brutality and thuggery-- the police officer who murdered George Floyd by crushing his neck was in the most basic way just following Trump's orders. As a function of his addiction to violence, Donald Trump uses stochastic terrorism to command his followers to attack various perceived enemies: nonwhite people, liberals and progressives, Latin American migrants and refugees, Muslims, Jews, so-called anarchists and antifa members and so on... Dodes warned that Donald Trump is a sociopath (defined as psychopathic personality type) who will do anything to stay in power." Here's Dodes:
When Donald Trump took office there was a lot of talk about how he would "become presidential" and grow into the office and its responsibilities.But he could not change his behavior because, as a sociopath or psychopath, he has a severe personality disorder. People with personality disorders don't change depending on the job they hold. The hope that Donald Trump would stop being sadistic, that he would develop the human quality of empathy for others, that he would value the rights and feelings of others, was never realistic. I think people keep pleading with him to be someone he is not because we all wish to have a president who is mature and compassionate rather than someone who is, in his essence, cruel. ...When mental health professionals warned that he has an antisocial personality disorder, that he is a sociopath or psychopath, they were communicating that there is something fundamentally wrong with him. He is expert at conning people, pretending to care about them, lying to get what he wants. But this ability to fool and cheat people falls apart when he is forced to be real, as when he's confronted with his lies or indeed any disagreement. Then the façade of the con man disappears and we see the uncaring and violent man underneath. He is unable to hide this true self when cornered....[M]orality means nothing to him. Therefore, Donald Trump does whatever he wants. He does not care if his behavior is moral or not. If Trump's behavior is immoral, or otherwise wrong and antisocial, that means nothing to him.By comparison, If Barack Obama were the president right now with the protests, the virus, the economy in crisis and all the other great problems, the whole country would feel different. The United States would be like a family that has challenges, sometimes great ones. But that family also has a father or a mother who can rise above the situation and act with maturity and perspective.Donald Trump cannot do that. Because he has no morality, his idea about solving the country's problems is to shoot people who are protesting and looting. When he said "looting means shooting" that reflects his inability to see the world through any perspective other than his own. ...Trump's behavior is deeply pathological, consistent with his antisocial personality disorder. Indifference to the death of others is a characteristic of psychopaths.Active Shooter by Nancy Ohanian...If you are an honest person, lying thousands of times is a lot of work. It is not work for Donald Trump. Again, even though it's often hard for folks to grasp, Donald Trump is different from normal human beings. We've all seen his utterly false statements, which he insists are facts. The degree of his insistence, regardless of the evidence, is essentially delusional. It's one factor that makes him so very dangerous.Trump is much more dangerous right now, and he will become increasingly dangerous as the 2020 election approaches if he's losing. Criticism, disagreement or opposition means to him that he is being attacked by evil people. This capacity to sink into paranoid rage is another aspect of his disorder. We should expect that he will try to turn America into a police state, or declare martial law and suspend the Constitution. He will likely try to prevent or overturn the 2020 election if he loses. In order to have an excuse for ending democracy, he is likely to have his own "Reichstag fire" incident, perhaps via starting a war with China or Iran. Like Hitler, he can then announce, "You must turn to me as your leader. I'm the only one who can save us in the time of this disaster."...His response is completely consistent with his disorder, and to that extent was predictable, just as many mental health professionals have been able to predict his actions for years now. Donald Trump is incapable of properly leading the country because leadership requires attention, empathy and concern for the people who are following you. Trump is incapable of that behavior. Donald Trump is not able to do the right thing because he does not care about doing what is right. Donald Trump is the weakest of men. The bully is always the weakest person.
