Donald Trump: Fabricator

Steve Benen’s book Shameless comes out today. The audio edition is narrated by Rachel Maddow. The conduct that is shameless is that of lying and repeating lies, even when they are easily refuted. This is standard practice in authoritarian regimes and for aspiring autocrats like Trump and his supporters and allies.

These people don’t hide their heads in shame or try to rationalize their mendacity when it’s exposed: They repeat their assertions ever more vehemently and promise to document their claims without having a speck of evidence to back them up or any intention of doing so.

Great numbers of people are unable to believe that Trump would keep repeating the same story, day after day, if it weren’t true. They can’t believe that he isn’t a normal person, one who would be ashamed to be caught in a lie. They don’t grasp that his behavior is normal for narcissistic sociopathic aspiring autocrats.