{"id":32036,"date":"2020-06-22T21:08:33","date_gmt":"2020-06-23T02:08:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=32036"},"modified":"2020-06-22T21:08:33","modified_gmt":"2020-06-23T02:08:33","slug":"briefly-trumps-indifference-isnt-hate-its-even-worse-than-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=32036","title":{"rendered":"Briefly: Trump\u2019s indifference isn\u2019t hate; it\u2019s even worse than that"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I noticed three instances over the weekend of people talking about Donald Trump\u2019s \u201ccampaign of hate.\u201d I wanted to correct them \u2014 because they misunderstand this narcissist \u2014 but I knew they wouldn\u2019t get my point. It\u2019s not that I\u2019m defending him, because what he does is worse than hate. You simply have to understand the way narcissists think to understand him. Trump doesn\u2019t hate. It\u2019s worse than hate. He\u2019s indifferent and angry with anyone who doesn\u2019t obey him and worship him, those who don\u2019t give him what\u2019s called \u201cnarcissistic supply.\u201d People believe that Trump hates blacks or Hispanics or foreigners or whatever group which he\u2019s seen as hating. It\u2019s true that he experiences rage<\/em> at people who will not give him what he wants, but he\u2019s not in touch enough with his real self to feel real hatred, much less to feel real love. He\u2019s like a vampire who sucks all the available praise and adoration from any group of people \u2014 any way he can get it. He doesn\u2019t love rural, blue-collar white folks, but their adoration gives him what he craves. He\u2019s not emotionally mature enough even to hate. For a narcissist, people are simply objects to manipulate, depending on what he can get from them. Trump\u2019s indifference is far worse than hatred. This isn\u2019t ideological or political. It\u2019s pathological. He\u2019s not mature enough to hate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I noticed three instances over the weekend of people talking about Donald Trump\u2019s \u201ccampaign of hate.\u201d I wanted to correct them \u2014 because they misunderstand this narcissist \u2014 but I knew they wouldn\u2019t get my point. It\u2019s not that I\u2019m defending him, because what he does is worse than hate. You simply have to understand Keep Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[556],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-briefly","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1x9iR-8kI","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32036"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32042,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32036\/revisions\/32042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}