An Easter Sunday essay recognizing the intervention of Satan in our times

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The personality defects of Donald J. Trump have been the subject of amateur psychology in mass media since his first presidential electoral campaign in 2016. The trait that has been most discussed was and is narcissism.

Google’s AI Search has the following to say about this issue:

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Numerous mental health professionals and critics have publicly suggested that Donald Trump exhibits traits consistent with

narcissistic personality disorder (NPD), antisocial personality disorder (ASPD), and paranoid personality disorder, often grouping them under the term “malignant narcissism“. These claims, primarily argued by psychologists and psychiatrists, cite patterns of grandiosity, lack of empathy, need for admiration, and impulsivity.

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This portrait of Trump is the product of specialists operating in our secular culture.

However, this is Easter Sunday and I think it entirely appropriate to approach the issue from a Christian binary analytical framework of Good and Evil, God and Satan.  This is all the more relevant because Trump professes to take religion seriously. Key members of his administration, like Marco Rubio and Pete Hegseth, are zealous Believers and speak publicly of their religion.

In this context and considering the Easter Sunday dateline of this message to the Community, I say that Trump and the senior members of his Administration have stepped right out of Dostoevsky’s novel The Possessed.  They are Evil Incarnate, they are possessed by Satan in their support of Israeli genocide in Gaza and now in the vicious, inhuman violence they are directing against the Iranian people. Listening to Trump’s daily diatribes, his bloody threats against Tehran, it  strains belief that these words are coming from our top elected official. 

And so I conclude : shame on the United States if this man is not impeached and removed from office, sent to face the International Court of Justice for war crimes.

Amen

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Gilbert Doctorow's latest book, "War Diaries. The Russia-Ukraine War, 2022-2023" is a unique contribution to literature on the war thanks to the author's reports on the Russian home front written during his periodic visits to St Petersburg at a time when Russia no longer issued visas and nearly all Western journalists had left the country. Doctorow's two-volume "Memoirs of a Russianist" published in 2020 also constitutes a category of its own, consisting largely of diary entries rather than reminiscences written decades later.. Volume 2 focuses on the community of 50,000 expatriate managers working and living in Moscow during the 1990s, about which none of his peers has yet to write. Gilbert Doctorow is a professional Russia watcher and actor in Russian affairs going back to 1965. He is a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College (1967), a past Fulbright scholar, and holder of a Ph.D. with honors in history from Columbia University (1975). After completing his studies, Mr. Doctorow pursued a business career focused on the USSR and Eastern Europe. For twenty-five years he worked for US and European multinationals in marketing and general management with regional responsibility. From 1998-2002, Doctorow served as the Chairman of the Russian Booker Literary Prize in Moscow. During the 2010-2011 academic year, he was a Visiting scholar of the Harriman Institute, Columbia University. Mr. Doctorow is a long-time resident of Brussels.

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6 thoughts on “An Easter Sunday essay recognizing the intervention of Satan in our times”

  2. That would be the ICC, and to be hoped for, but the Hague Invasion Act (2002) is still on the books, and was used as a threat at least as recently as 11/2024, by Senator Tom Cotton.

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  3. The worst yet: The EU grandees all with nothing to say about either the Genocide in Gaza and the planned genocide of Trump against Iran, on top of a war of aggression. All those cowards did was to refuse to engage in support of the war, which by international law (that nobody seems to observe anymore) would ave made tem guilty as well.

    I grew up a few years after WW2 in Germany, and in the 1960s we had hoped to eliminate the remainders of fascism in Germany. A false hope, as the new fascism is on the rise again, with Germany again leading the march. Maybe Morgenthal was right after all, and his ideas should have been implemented. But not only in Germany, in the USA as well. When one considers that one sign of fascism is the nexus of the political class with the industrial/financial class against the majority of the population, the USA has been long on that way, the more so considering its imperialist ambitions.

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  5. Well, I’ve heard it said the more evil you do and the greater the scope of it. The more you come to serve evil directly.

    So in that sense Trump is a minion of Satan, I suppose.

    However his mundane personality defects have been well known since the 1980’s. The man is a pathological liar, conman and almost embarrassingly tastelessly narcissistic, now he has decrepitude & senility on top of it…

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