Echoes of this belief system are found in the self-mythologizing compulsions around us. Pictured next to his stricken-looking but undeniably gorgeous, expensive import of a wife, with the tacky, gold-plated opulence of Trump Tower in the background, Trump repeatedly reminds us that he represents the ultimate American dream. Everything our imperial patriarch surveys is tremendous. He surrounds himself with people he describes as “high-quality.” According to his first-person myth, no matter what he does, he can’t help but win, and the only people who disagree with that assessment are losers. But
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