Maureen Dowd, Pamela Paul, Donald Trump: Three Successful People, Two of Whom are Consistent, and One of Whom is Puzzlingly Inconsistent.

New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd is against neo-nazis and the Klu Klux Klan, and to emphasize how consistent and predictable her attitudes are, she traces them back to her admirable father. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/19/opinion/sunday/trump-neo-nazis-and-the-klan.html?mcubz=0

New York Times Book Review editor Pamela Paul accepts the necessity of upgrading to the latest technology at work, but refuses to let unnecessary gadgets intrude on her home life, which is her longstanding, consistent attitude. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/18/opinion/sunday/technology-downgrade-sanity.html?mcubz=0&_r=0

In contrast, President Donald Trump is consistently inconsistent, and has even boasted of his unpredictability.

I don’t know Maureen Dowd, Pamela Paul, or Donald Trump. So I don’t know that Dowd and Paul do not have multiple personality or that Trump does. But their comparison does highlight one of the things I look for as a clue to whether a person might have multiple personality (which is notoriously hidden and camouflaged before it is diagnosed). I look for puzzling inconsistency.

People with undiagnosed multiple personality may be puzzlingly inconsistent, because their various alternate personalities, although incognito, may differ from each other in attitude, mood, interests, knowledge, talent, memory, grooming (hair color, etc.), names (nicknames, pseudonyms), and behavior.