Donald Trump, Poster Child for Megalomania

Photograph Source: The White House – Public Domain

Megalomaniac: Someone with an extreme obsession for power, wealth, and self-importance, characterized by grandiose delusions of being more significant or powerful than they are, often linked to a tenuous grip on reality.”

“The whole aim  of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed—and hence clamorous to be led to safety—by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”  H.L. Mencken, “Baltimore Evening Sun,”1920.