I would have missed the story from Daily Kos contributing editor Hunter, a wordsmith par excellence. Hunter joined Kos in 2003 and has published 7915 diaries. I would have missed his super snarky exercise in taking down Trump’s attempt at building a new social network if I didn’t have a Google News search alert (see how to set one up here) for the phase malignant narcissism.
If you have a search for a word or phrase published online in the news Google sends you an email with the link or links. Unfortunately this doesn’t include everything published in Daily Kos.
Most of you learned about the meaning of malignant narcissism sometime in 2017 or 2018 after Dr. John Gartner, founder of Duty to Warn when he introduced it to the debate about whether Trump’s psychopathology made him both unfit for office and dangerous starting in this USA Today article.
I would have missed the article Hunter first published in Daily Kos if I hadn’t set one of my Google News searches to include malignant narcissism. From what I can tell Google News doesn’t track articles that are published in Daily Kos. However, if they are republished in AlterNet or RawStory, as they sometimes are, they are included.
I initially clicked the link in the email (shown in my illustration). It took me here:
I read the story and thought “why do I even bother trying to write clever diaries with my own lame attempts to craft zingers and snarky phrases when this author makes my writing look lame. Then I looked to see just who the author was and was pleased to see it was none other than Daily Kos veteran writer Hunter.
His original story appeared here:
Here are the references to malignant narcissism:
If there is one thing that Donald J. Trump is certain of, it's that the universe and all things within it revolve around Donald J. Trump. Wars, pandemics, mass murders, international terrorism: All are either plots to make Donald Trump personally look bad or are opportunities for Donald Trump to look good. This is what malignant narcissism does to a person. For anyone not born into money, it's a ticket to a rough, angry life; for a sociopathic little twit who can funnel enough of his wealthy father's cash into his own persona to support a lifelong stream of disposable, simpering yes-men, it's a path to lifelong, now-calcified delusions in which all of the above plots against him are not only obvious but "proven."
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Trump is attempting to buck that trend because Trump is a malignant narcissist. He is someone who might literally wither away without his demanded praise and attention; he cannot stomach it. Like Tinkerbell, he must receive constant attention or he will die. So, not quite like Tinkerbell, he is crashing weddings, cheating at golf, opining about the drug habits of sport horses, and making sure that every Republican lawmaker he ever so much as made eye contact with still knows that if they do not shine his shoes in every televised interview and public statement, he will personally devote himself to dragging them into the pits of primary hell. Him and his 200,000 "likes," that is.
The Poll is about Google News search. An alternative to using this is customizing a Google News page. Instructions here.
I recommending using DuckDuckGo for your Internet searches rather than Google since the later tracks your searches and uses them for targeted advertising. I also use it because I can easily put the web address in a diary and you can’t do this with Google. For example here’s a DuckDuckGo search for Trump malignant narcissism.
