<div dir="ltr">If he weren't narcissistic he would defer to the experts which would mitigate his incompetence. The BS about being sarcastic is a pathetic way to rationalize his failure to defer.<div><br></div><div>Since narcissism is universal adding "malignant" or "pathological" makes a useful distinction.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 7:13 PM uǝlƃ ☣ <<a href="mailto:gepropella@gmail.com">gepropella@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">OK. Well, risking too much repetition, if he were competent, he wouldn't have said that ... and the policies would not have followed ... and he would defer to the experts. Because, as Dunning-Kruger and Zajenkowski et al, and Schröder-Abé et al, seem to point out, competent people have a good handle on their own incompetence, regardless of their narcissism.<br>
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On 4/28/20 5:50 PM, Frank Wimberly wrote:<br>
> My assumed audience is not the American public thank God. An example of how his narcissism makes him dangerous is his saying the coronavirus will be gone in five days and the related policy positions. His grandiosity is threatened by the prospect of deferring to epidemiologists and virologists. That causes a narcissistic injury.<br>
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