(1/X) It is simply a fact that one of the central conceits of this account—that establishment media failed to convey the dangers of a second Trump presidency—has been proved correct. In particular, they completely ignored the fact that Trump has an easily diagnosed personality disorder....

(2/X) Trump is a textbook narcissistic sociopath. Just google, read a little on Wiki, and you will be convinced. You don't need a degree in psychology for this one. What is interesting to me, though, is that there are a lot of public intellectuals who are in fact psychology professors..

(3/X) The free speech crowd is loaded with them: Pinker, Haidt (also various right-wing crackpots like Jordan Peterson). And pundits love psychology anecdotes. Bobo is always telling parents about how if they make their kids wait to eat marshmallows, they'll grow up to be doctors.

(4/X) There's a reason for this, I think. Psychology/cognitive science in its current is easily Atlanticized, that is made to seem interesting and accessible to the pseudo-intellectual dimwits who make up the majority of the readership of America's middle-brow publications. That's not a slight..

(5/X) There was a time when the Atlantic crowd was teaching themselves the nuances of theoretical physics by reading about elegant universes and dancing wu li masters. My therapist told me to stop thinking about this, but Gregg Easterbrook used to critique string theory.

(6/X) Why, with lots of psychology prof public intellectuals and a psychology-obsessed punditry, was there not even a single article I saw in the Times, Atlantic, Post, New Yorker etc. talking about Trump's personality disorder?

(7/X) They certainly had lots of time to discuss Biden's cognitive state. Bill Clinton was subjected to endless hours of armchair psychology. Why not Trump? His case is particularly easy to understand.