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Sexist petulance is so childish and self-centered that it's easy to laugh at, but as Carroll's experience shows, that level of male entitlement can get dangerous quickly.

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Every time Trump talks, it confirms the Biden campaign's narrative that the former president is a self-centered jerk who will sell out the country for his own interests.

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“He has encouraged and continues to encourage political violence. … His deranged, self-centered, obsessive quest for power is the reason violent insurrectionists assaulted me and my brave colleagues.”

When most people picture a narcissist, we think of self-centered, awful people who lack empathy.

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People become disenchanted and in the fray, “The idea of freedom becomes more self-centered, more greedy. It degenerates into anarchy and winds up in a dictatorship. ... I’m afraid we are sleepwalking towards dictatorship.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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