A politician becomes a psychopath when he or she acts without calculating the consequences for approval rating and voter support. The same thing goes for ministers and their advisers who urge military operations abroad which make voters feel unsafe at home. Fear and insecurity aren't good for incumbents; at least not the ones who can't rig elections.
In the case of John Bolton (lead image, left),
he took the National Security Advisor's post from President Donald Trump in order to make as many wars outside the US as he could. He has now published a book about all the wars he wanted when he got his best chance to make them; and about those who got in the way to stop him, especially Trump.
After seventeen months, Bolton lost his job on September 10, 2019, because fear and insecurity weren't good for Trump's re-election (then). Bolton's objective, along with his publisher Simon & Schuster and everyone now endorsing the book, is to make war on Trump and defeat him at the election on November 3.
This is as obvious as Bolton's diagnosis as a psychopath - or to be clinically precise, an adrenal
hyperplasiac. He himself is unusually sensitive to the diagnosis of his symptoms, beginning with his moustache. Displacement of violence is a classic symptom of moustache wearers — everybody has understood this since Sigmund Freud's case study of Little Hans and his father's moustache, as Bolton knows only too well. So he starts his book making sure no one believes, as Bolton purposefully investigated for himself, Trump's "purported dislike of my moustache. For what it's worth, he told me it was never a factor, noting that his father also had one. Other than shrinks and those deeply interested in Sigmund Freud, which I assuredly am not, I don't really believe my looks played a role in Trump's thinking."
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