I can sort of wrap my head around a narcissistic person. What I'll never get is that people will subordinate themselves to this kind of personal vanity at the cost of their dignity; the laughing audience, the consensual congregation cheering one man's deranged dream, the self-tormenting voters, ugh.
Pundits are - in vain - looking to economics and politics when trying to explain Trump's behavior.

But, in reality, the central place to look if we want to understand Trump and his policies is this:

The psychology of dominance.

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