The Real Cost of Crazy

"Hey, lots of leaders were narcissists" 
(Lunacy Notes before Lunatic Blocks the Sun)
                                                      
Just hope it's not total

                                                                  "How about that Alt-Left?"       

What to do? How to respond? My reflex action is to rant through the NYTimes, the Washington Post or maybe Breitbart (but they are too crazy today, cheering for Their Guy, to even consider).  
Here's what I ranted to The Times' Frank Bruni column "Can’t Eclipse the American Spirit:"

NYTIMES 8.16.2017

will duff

Tijeras, NM 20 minutes ago
"Lunar" is the base word behind "lunatic." Maybe I'm crazy to see the connection? For all of us who have been preoccupied with DJT's mental state, now we can see the actual, on-the-ground results of having a president who is suffering (ha!) from malignant narcisissim. The tragic, bizarre, shout-'em-down press conference, apparently patting the nazis on their puerile popos, was just as much classic super narcissist stuff as it was actual thought. Never wrong, never to be criticized, always counter-punching, doubling down compulsively, deriding opponents... all that falls in the classic symptoms list of the malignant narcissist. We are ALL now suffering from his lunacy. (Oh, and it's now clear he's a racist narcissist.) 
Then I tried my hand at political cartoonery.

**Donald Trump Caricature by DonkeyHotey 

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