Following the midterm blowout for the Republican Party that has been viewed as a referendum on Donald Trump’s second term, the president has entered the “third act” of his political career and is more dangerous than ever.
That’s the warning from Dr. John Gartner, a psychologist, former Johns Hopkins University professor and frequent Trump critic, who told the Daily Beast’s Joanna Coles that the president likely took the GOP’s defeat personally.
“Hell hath no fury like a malignant narcissist scorned,” Gartner said. “I think we’re now in the third act of the tragedy, and I think we’re in more danger now than we’ve ever been.”
According to the Daily Beast, Gartner believes the 80-year-old president may now be even more inclined to wreak havoc. “He’s going to act out in the ways that are destructive—to show his power and dominance, and to gain the sadistic sense of pleasure that he gets from destruction,” Gartner said.
He compared the moment to a dangerous stage in an abusive relationship.
“I feel like we’re at the stage where a woman who’s been abused goes, ‘Thank God. I kicked him out of the house, I have a restraining order, I’m finally safe,’” he said. “And that’s often the time when the really destructive abusers say, ‘Okay, now I’m gonna kill the b—h.’ I think that he is that guy, and we are the b—h. And he doesn’t care if he kills us all.”
Gartner admitted he doesn’t have much advice to offer on how to deal with the impulsive president because he doesn’t believe “anyone can contain him.”
“I don’t think there is a strategy that will work,” he told Coles. “I think that he is going to do what he is going to do, and he’s going to reap maximum chaos, maximum destruction, maximum confusion.”
He warned that Democrats’ victory celebrations may be short-lived. “We’re so elated that Democrats have taken both houses of Congress, but I think he’s going to be successful over the next two years at stymying virtually every effort that they make,” he said.
Gartner argued Democrats will have little leverage because Trump has no agenda he needs them for. “Any bill that they pass that could help America is a bill he wants to thwart. That’s how his psychology works,” he said. “He doesn’t care if shutting down the government hurts the country. Look, he didn’t care that his actions hurt his party, right? He could care less.”
“At no point did he ever think maybe I should change my behavior because it’s gonna hurt my party,” Gartner concluded. “He doesn’t care about his party or his country or anyone else.”
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