Just Politics

[blackhawks]

OK, I stand corrected, LBJ was a narcissist, but a particular kind. Now, let's define it more precisely as to its impact on a president and on his accomplishments.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/11/17/newser-lyndon-b-johnson-president-grandiose-narcissism/3618507/

More than 100 authorities on various presidents assessed the leaders' traits; to judge a president's success, researchers referred to surveys of historians, Futurity reports.

Our most grandiosely narcissistic president? One Lyndon Baines Johnson, the study finds.

Runners-up were Theodore Roosevelt, Andrew Jackson, Franklin Roosevelt, and John F. Kennedy.

Grandiose narcissism is associated with "overall greatness," says the study, published in Psychological Science. It's also linked to being persuasive, good at handling crises, and taking charge of the agenda.

Or, as in the case of Trump, It's linked to exactly NONE of that. So I take narcissism to be on a scale ranging from benign to malign, grandiose to grotesque.

I confuse nothing. Ends define where the presidents fall on my scale. Trump IS both malign and grotesque and he will leave nothing of redeeming value behind.


"It's interesting to me that these are memorable presidents, ones that we tend to talk about and learn about in history classes," a researcher says. "Only rarely, however, do we talk about most of those who had low ratings for grandiose narcissism, like Zachary Taylor and Millard Fillmore."