Trump is a narcissistic sociopath (aka malignant narcissist), but also after the debate he has given us conclusive proof that he has an organic brain disease - dementia, mania, or a combination of the two. Of course this makes him even more dangerous. But there is another element to consider.
This means that if elected there's a good chance his condition will deteriorate to the point that he will be removed through the 25th Amendment and then we will have J.D. Vance as president. He too is a malignant narcissist, but he doen't have an organic brain disease.
Remember, Hitler was a sociopath but there has been controversy among experts over whether or not he suffered from organic psychopatholgy (see Wikipedia). I am not an expert on Hitler but my own impression is that no matter whether or not he might have had any of the disorders listed in the following chart none of them significantly impaired his ability to think rationally.
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I don't see any indications that J.D. Vance suffers from any organic, or brain, psychopatholgy. Narcissistic sociopathy is psychopathogy, but it is a personalty disorder. He fits into the category of people without severe organic mental disorders that led to the coining of the term "the banality of evil" by Hannah Arendt. Below from Wikipedia:
Famed is Hannah Arendt's invention of the phrase the "banality of evil"; in 1963, she stated that for a Nazi perpetrator as Adolf Eichmann, mental normality and the ability to commit mass murder were not mutually exclusive. Harald Welzer came to a similar conclusion in his book Täter. Wie aus ganz normalen Menschen Massenmörder werden (Perpetrators: How ordinary people become mass murderers).
We all know the kind of country J.D. Vance wants to turn the United States into.
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