Apparently, Mary Trump's book isn't really full of anything a neutral observer couldn't figure out, except it gives a clinical diagnosis from a first person observer.
It's perhaps more interesting as to what it catalogues in terms of WHERE Trump's pathology comes from. As this piece lays out, the enduring 'mystery" of Trump is how a most "unmanly" man appeals to a certain type of performative toxic masculinity, in the same way the least religious person has such a strong hold over evangelicals.
So, again, Trump's floor of support (which we look to be approaching) is essentially those people who define themselves as much as by what they are opposed to as what they are for. These are the people Brent Terhune skewers so mercilessly, some can't even tell it's satire. (Seriously, go watch some of those videos.)
Trump's pathology is not simply his. There are millions more so irrevocably damaged by having their parochial worldview shattered by women bosses and gay men in their church choirs that they have decided to support America's worst person as president to the detriment of the rest of us.
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