“The psychosis of a single man”

I found yet another worthwhile newsletter while reading Heather Cox Richardson’s Letters from an American. It’s David Rothkopf’s Need to Know . From the latest installment, “Living in a Time of Lunatics and Monsters”:

Not since Adolf Hitler blew his brains out in a bunker beneath the garden of the German Reich Chancellery on April 30, 1945, have the lives of so many people around the world been so buffeted by the psychosis of a single man.

It is not that there have not been mad men in power since. There have even been very powerful ones. But, at this moment in history, the fate of virtually everyone on the planet is being impacted by the toxic cocktail of character flaws, insecurities, and pathologies that are shaping the actions of the President of the United States.