I don’t have much (or really anything) to add to this. Anyone following my stories about Trump’s being too mentally ill to be president should read it.
If you took even an introductory psychology course in college, and certainly if you took a social psychology course, you know about his famous research study conducted by psychologist Phillip Zimbardo. It is taught alongside the Milgram experiment on obedience to authority where test subjects gave fake electric shocks to student volunteers.
The study was conducted at Stanford University with a government grant from the U.S. Office of Naval Research in 1971.
Dr. Zimbardo had 24 volunteer students split into two groups of 12 each. One group got uniforms and were told they were to assume the role of prison guards. The other nine were to play the role of prisoners.
Here’s a brief summary from Wikipedia.
By the end of the experiment, there was no unification among prisoners as well as guards. The guards also had won complete control over all of their prisoners and were using their authority to its greatest extent. One prisoner had even gone as far as to go on a hunger strike. When he refused to eat, the guards put him into solitary confinement for three hours (even though their own rules stated the limit that a prisoner could be in solitary confinement was only one hour). Instead of the other prisoners looking at this inmate as a hero and following along in his strike, they chanted together that he was a bad prisoner and a troublemaker. Prisoners and guards had rapidly adapted to their roles, stepping beyond the boundaries of what had been predicted and leading to dangerous and psychologically damaging situations. Zimbardo himself started to give in to the roles of the situation. He had to be shown the reality of the experiment by Christina Maslach, his girlfriend and future wife, who had just received her doctorate in psychology. Zimbardo reflects that the message from the experiment is that "situations can have a more powerful influence over our behaviour than most people appreciate, and few people recognise."
He addresses every criticism leveled at mental health professionals diagnosing Trump.
The and his co-author then explain in easy to understand language why his psychological makeup make him too dangerous to wield the power of the presidency.
Now that you know who the author of this article is, read what he and co-author, Rosemary K.M. Sword writes about The Elephant in the Room.
It’s Time We Talked Openly About Donald Trump’s Mental Heath
by Rosemary K.M. Sword and Phillip Zimbardo