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“The reason someone like Trump won the presidency and can win again is that when things are unstable and uncertain, people want strong narcissistic leaders,” said Dr. Campbell. “So you say, ‘This is my stability plan.’
Dorothy L. Espelage, a professor of education at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill whose research focuses on teen bullying, said Trump is akin to the type of “Machiavellian bully” who exhibits “heightened narcissism and insecurity. severe “and targeting weaker children on the playground.
“We tell the kids not to get involved with that kind of bully,” he said.
But if you have to participate, he said, it’s important to control your emotions and recognize that your opponent will never admit to being wrong. So you have to display cold dispassion while challenging the behavior.
“I study students with disabilities,” he said, and still remembers with horror the moment in the 2016 campaign when Trump mocked a disabled reporter. “I was like, ‘What’s your point? Enough is enough. What’s your point, President Trump? You seem to be getting nervous. ‘
Jay Carney, a former press secretary for President Barack Obama who served as a spokesman for Vice President Biden and is now the senior vice president of global corporate affairs at Amazon, said Biden should avoid entering into “an exchange of insults” with the president.
“The fact that the president likes to insult his opponents, his critics, or the people in general, is not new information to voters and it will not move them,” Carney said. “I think Biden’s job will be to quickly divert to something that is important to voters”: the coronavirus, the economy, health insurance.
What happens when you exaggerate, distort the truth, make false accusations, lie? Should Mr. Biden ignore it or double down?
