“Protect Us From This Dangerous President, 2 Psychiatrists Say” in New York Times letter: But how could Trump appear crazy and get elected President?

Published opinions that contend President Trump is crazy have been astonishing. This latest opinion by these two psychiatrists calls him erratic, psychotic (“failure to distinguish between reality and fantasy”), paranoid, and irrational (1).

But is there a method to Trump’s madness? Is Trump Hamlet? What kind of madness did Hamlet have, anyway? (Search Hamlet in this blog.)

In short, what kind of pseudo-madness can be high-functioning enough to get elected President? The same kind of pseudo-madness—multiple personality—that can win a Nobel Prize in Literature.

And how dangerous are novelists, really?

1. Judith L. Herman, Robert Jay Lifton. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/08/opinion/protect-us-from-this-dangerous-president-2-psychiatrists-say.html