Extreme circumstances offer opportunities for insight. We see now, in Trump’s inability to face the virus, problems of mirroring. Trump sees himself in the virus — an incredibly destructive and parasitic contagion. He recoils in denial and then attacks.
Think of the dilemma when a person spends a lifetime fleeing from and in denial of their nature, when the inescapable demon is the realization of one’s own worthlessness. That worthlessness compels Trump to belittle and degrade everyone around him.
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