Netanyahu and Donald Trump: Butch and Sundance Sans the Charm

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There's something deeply jarring about the acceptance of Benjamin Netanyahu and Donald Trump—two men who represent the apotheosis of narcissistic political pathology. What's most disturbing isn't just their individual criminality, but how remarkably similar their playbooks are, as if they've been reading from the same sociopath's guide to democratic destruction. They are, in essence, the same malignant personality type in different cultural packaging: predatory narcissists who have discovered that shamelessness is the ultimate political superpower.

Both men share the classic profile of the successful political psychopath: an absolute inability to feel genuine empathy, a grandiose sense of their own importance, and a talent for manipulating others' emotions while remaining completely detached from their own moral failures. They don't just lie—they inhabit an alternate reality where their obvious crimes become evidence of their persecution, where their clear guilt becomes proof of their …