If you have any doubt that the President-Elect of the United States is a genuine sociopath, you should check out Kevin Drum’s fine exposition and dissection of Donald Trump’s latest Twitter frenzy.  After showing how Trump had evidently spent his evening “hunched over his smartphone rounding up a motley crew of racists, nutbags, and teenagers to assure him that he’s right,”  Drum asks “What kind of person does this? And how easy is it to manipulate someone like this? We have a helluva scary four years ahead of us.”   If you don’t have the stomach to go through the Trumptweets, you will in any case appreciate Drum’s opening paragraph:

I still wake up each morning thinking it can’t really be true that Donald Trump will be president of the United States in less than eight weeks. I mean, he’s…he’s—he’s a willfully ignorant crackpot. He’s a ridiculous game show host. He’s a five-year-old in a 70-year-old body. He’s addicted to gossip and TV. He’s a trust fund kid who thinks he’s a great businessman. He doesn’t have the attention span to read an actual book. He loves conspiracy theories. And he’s got an ego so fragile it ought to be packed in Styrofoam peanuts.”