Robert ReichMusk is not exactly Donald Trump.
But both represent the emergence of a particularly American personality in the early decades of the 21st century: the wildly disruptive narcissist.
DaveA symptom, no doubt, linked to the long rise of narcissistic behavior in the USA.
Some aspects of this recipe of this narcissistic pandemic are apparent:
- The hyperindividualism of libertarianism
- Changing demographics in regard to the proportion of whites in the USA (declines ~10% every ~20 years)
- The ascendency of a wildly successful conservative angertainment industrial propaganda complex
... It's the nonintuitive aspects that as a society require identification.