"[Trump's perspective] is the perspective of a man whose brain has been poisoned by his life-long pursuit of fame and admiration. He exists only if he’s being watched, and his decisions are good only so far as they are seen. This is why Trump is the purest expression of this cursed moment in cultural history:"
~ Paul Waldman
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"He is every fame-lusting Real Housewife, every hungry influencer trying to boost their middling follower count, every looksmaxxing douchebro, taken to a terrifying extreme.
And underneath all the desperate bravado is a well of insecurity so deep and dark it would destroy the world."
"Those without souls lack empathy. I saw the soulless in war. Those so calcified inside they kill without any demonstrable feeling or remorse.
The soulless exist in a state of insatiable self-worship. The idol they have erected to themselves must be constantly fed. It demands a never-ending stream of victims. It demands abject obedience and subservience, publicly on display at Trump cabinet meetings."
~ Chris Hedges
"I want to caution you that death, our death — as individuals and as a collective — mean nothing to those without souls.
This makes the soulless very, very dangerous."
William Lindsey 
