Is it low emotional intelligence? Or is it … living in psychopathy and in the depths of psychosis, harboring fantasies about killing the bad guy to be the living hero, that leads to one possessing a voice that has the tones on soldier deaths Hegseth demonstrates and some find offensive. It is the living demonstration of abnormal psychology.

"An American tragedy playing out in front of us — America being defeated by widespread mental illness, and not a physical, external enemy."

Republicans have chosen those two facets of abnormal psychology to be their leaders' personality traits of choice: psychopathy, and expressing psychotic manifestations as reality. It's an American tragedy playing out in front of us — America being defeated by widespread mental illness, and not a physical, external enemy.

A community and in-group amongst other Americans has chosen to lead by abnormal psychology and drag America down to hell with it — fully committing not only themselves, but the nation as a whole, to the fulfillment of the dynamics latent within their abnormal psychology.