This is Conway's post announcing the PAC on X:
I used to say George Conway, who explained Trump's malignant narcissism years ago, deserves an honorary doctorate in clinical psychology. It was Duty to Warn founder Dr. John D. Gartner who first went public about this in an article in May of 2017. It was published in USA Today. He explained what malignant narcissism was and how the diagnosis fit Trump. His article, Donald Trump's malignant narcissism is toxic was the first such article published in the non-partisan media. Unfortunately it was the last. Subsequent articles, and there were many of them, were published in progressive media or featured in interviews on The Last Word With Lawrence O'Donnell.
This is from Newsweek in 2019:
George Conway Says Trump Is a 'Malignant Narcissist': He's 'Both Mentally Disordered and Evil'
... Conway argued that Trump "is legally and diagnostically sane." "But he suffers impairment from at least two diagnosable personality disorders, and needs a full workup for possible onset of dementia. He's obviously unfit. He'd be drummed out of any other job," the lawyer explained. "Colloquially, though, we can say he's nuts."
There is a huge group of Americans who understand that Trump has a psychological syndrome comprising a mix of grandiose narcissism, psychopathy, sadism,and paranoia. They know that this makes him unfit to be president, They are aware that in this role if he's elected president he is dangerous for democracy here and around the world.
Unfortunately there is also a huge group of Americans who couldn't define malignant naricssism if their lives depended on it even though, in a way, their lives do depend on understanding this and that Trump has this dangerous psychopathology.
Not only don't many Trump supporters not care that he is a malignant narcissist, they like when he rails against his, and their, enemies as if he's an evil unhinged blood thirsty monarch. He's a king like this Alice in Wonderland queen:
I doubt George Conway's PAC will sway many voters. Still, Donald Trump knows well who he is. George Conway was married to KellyAnne and he ended up in the limelight when he came out as an anti-Trumper and was one of the founders of The Lincoln Project. Even the couple's daughter, Claudia, came out as an anti-Trumper. Now both she and her father are a thorn in Trump's side. Consider: "Claudia Conway Calls Out Mom, Kellyanne, for Supporting JD Vance" in Newsweek two days ago.
Trump fancies himself to be a greater president than Lincoln so it was a brilliant idea to name this organization after Lincoln.
Now whatever he does George Conway makes the news. It is almost irrelevant whether Trump is aware of his efforts, or if he is, whether this bothers him. After all Trump's grandiose narcissism is part of malignant narcissism and if he happens to catch a glimpse of the trucks and billboards the PAC has around the convention his reaction would probably be how handsome he looked. He knows that bad publicity is often better than no publicity.
Trump thrives on people worshiping him whether as a divinity, a superman, or hunka-hunka-burning love who is irresistible to women. For example he knows that that are millions of men who wish they could grab women by their private parts and get away with it and women who would gladly let him have his way with them. I may even enjoy seeing some of them with homemade or purchased t-shirts like this at his rallies:
Whether or not George Conway's PAC swings a single vote at least it makes anti-Trumpers feel good as we worry about the dystopian nightmare a Trump regime would thrust us into. This doesn't mean we should let our guard down. While few of us can make the national news we should do whatever way we can to spread the word about how dangerous to democracy a President Trump would be.
I am trying to do this in my own small way by writing this blog and giving quotes to Chauney DeVega to use in his Salon columns, most recently here: "Trump is able to turn bullets into gold": Experts on MAGA's "mythology of Trump the superman."
Updates:
George Conway was on Morning Joe this morning. He gave a lesson in abnormal psychology as it applies to Trump. (Click image to enlarge):
My blog for Friday is "Newsom/Whitmer is a made for TV winning ticket. They possess the "it factor."
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