These are just words and phrases some from Republicans used to describe Trump’s recent behavior from one article in The Hill:
- “flailing and melting down on national television.” -
- "unhinged" -
- "dog whistle to the deranged" -
- "spiraling out of control" —
- "lashing out" -
- "off the rails”
- “palpably dangerous”
- “volatile moments”
George Conway’s 11,000 word exposition in The Atlantic lays out in gruesome frightening detail what psychotherapists have been warning about for 2 ½ years. There’s a summary of it here. However we really don’t need to get down into the weeds of the American Psychiatric Association’s diagnostic cookbook (aka the DSM-5).
We don’t have to use psychiatric terms to describe and explain Trump’s behavior. The general public, even many of the brainwashed Fox News watchers, should understand that what everyone is observing from the president is not normal.
I don’t expect the likes of Mitch McConnell to have a smidgen of a grasp of abnormal psychology. I don’t know if the curriculum at the University of Louisville where he got his BA or the University of Kentucky where he got his law degree even required a psychology course.
But he has to know that what he is seeing coming from Trump means he is not rational.
McConnell, who is really the decider-in-chief, will excuse or even deny any wrong-doing by Trump. But it defies belief that he wants to keep a president in office who is manifestly mentally ill. I am not only referring to Trump’s ranting and raving like a banshee but also about his believing conspiracy theories. For example read “The web of crazy conspiracy theories that may bring down a president” by Heather “Digby” Parton.
At some point will he come to the conclusion that it is better to have a mostly sane sycophantic Mike Pence, accessory to the president’s law breaking that he is, as president?
Democratic strategist, Bob Shrum said “Donald Trump impeaches himself all the time” but he isn’t Mitch McConnell.
The Hill doesn't answer the question implied in the title of their article.