Ego-Holic In Chief

A man who is never wrong, who attacks others who say he is wrong, who defends his rightness with his dying breath, is an ego drunk, an opinion addict, is acting out and needs to dry out. Trump is drunk on his self-image, his solipsistic conversations with himself, and with imposing his warped worldview on the world. His is the simple-minded, binary universe of winners and losers, of white and black, of with me or agin'me. He is "right" about everything. One of the tenets of recovery is learning to "get off it," or to promptly admit when you are wrong. When that is impossible because the rabid ego will never admit being wrong, the drunk gets to stay a drunk. All who go along with it are enablers. Well, we have a raging ego-maniac who is drunk on power in the White House, and he leaves a swath of chaos and megalomania in his wake. Anyone who really cared about him would call for an intervention. Sycophants, thugs, goons, and yes-women are too busy keeping the house of cards from imploding. We'll see how long that lasts. The biggest drunks fall the hardest and usually take a few of us with them when they collapse: think war, stock-market collapse, healthcare crisis, skyrocketing poverty, xenophobia, and on and on. The cardboard cut-out man,who worships his tall drink of power, the idol of his reflection, won't see it coming. We'll say we knew as the dust settles. We knew.