by Harper West | Sep 11, 2026 | Trump
On September 9, 2026, President Donald John Trump offered the American public yet another bribe. He promised that the federal government would pay each adult $5,000 if Republicans were elected to majorities in the U.S. House and Senate. This is on top of the...
by Harper West | May 6, 2026 | Trump
This video by Matthew Cooke draws the same comparisons I’ve drawn between family systems of narcissistic abuse and societal levels of authoritarianism such as the Trump/Vance/MAGA regime. My understanding of narcissism and narcissistic family systems was why I — can...
by Harper West | Jan 30, 2026 | Trump
Given the tyrannical and fascistic behaviors of the current U.S. administration, many of us are feeling emotions of horror, disgust, and anger. I’ve decided to blog out the text of a 2020 article I wrote for the Journal of Humanistic Psychology on the emotion of...
by Harper West | Jan 19, 2026 | The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump, Trump
This meme summarizes some of what I wrote about in The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump in early 2017. That book when on to become a #1 bestseller because at that time so many people were trying to make sense of this deeply troubled person who had surprisingly (with...
by Harper West | Mar 26, 2025 | Narcissist, Trump
As an expert in shame and its impact on human behavior, I have been keenly aware of a lack of shame among Republican politicians, especially in the past 10 years. Donald Trump, of course, is leading the competition in his complete lack of humility and in his inability...
by Harper West | Mar 10, 2025 | Trump
America is now a post-moral society. This is what I’m going to start calling the era we’re in. That’s because 75 million people clearly believe that immorality is just fine. They support lying (lots of lying!), greed, bullying, venality, sexual assault, bigotry,...
