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Review (Part 3): Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man, by Mary L. Trump, PhD (Simon & Schuster, 2020)

by Harper West | Aug 10, 2020 | Trump

Abusive Parents Create Abusive Children As I’ve written in Part 1 and Part 2 of this review, and in numerous other blogs, Other-Blamers are essentially abusive partners who engage in relationships with antisocial emotions and traits of self-interest, rather than...

Let’s Help Chuck Todd Recover from His Abusive Relationship

by Harper West | Dec 27, 2019 | Narcissist, The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump

Poor Chuck Todd!  He’s just coming to realize something some of us realized years ago. He, and most other journalists, have been involved in an abusive relationship with Donald J. Trump and the Trump Party.  Todd, a powerful decision-maker in political...
Book Review – ‘Disordered Minds: How Dangerous Personalities Are Destroying Democracy’

Book Review – ‘Disordered Minds: How Dangerous Personalities Are Destroying Democracy’

by Harper West | Jul 11, 2019 | Narcissist, Other-Blamer, The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump

Book Review: “Disordered Minds: How Dangerous Personalities Are Destroying Democracy” By Ian Hughes (Zero Books, 2018) Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot and Mao were not aberrations and America is not immune. This can happen any time a paranoid, sociopathic and...

What Happens When a Bad-Tempered, Distractible Doofus Runs an Empire?

by Harper West | Jun 7, 2018 | Other-Blamer, The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump

Check out a very worthwhile read in The New Yorker on the amazing parallels in dysfunctional, narcissistic behavior between Donald Trump and Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany. The article is by Miranda Carter, who wrote a biography, “George, Nicholas and Wilhelm:  Three...

The GOP “Convict Caucus”: More Evidence of a Party of Narcissists and Sociopaths

by Harper West | May 2, 2018 | Other-Blamer

Currently, three convicted criminals are running in the 2018 congressional races as Republicans. Even in the era of Trump, I find this a shocking statement. These are alleged crimes, accusations or arrests, but actual convictions.  This is proof that the Republican...
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