aberrant

Four dynamics are highlighted here: self-excuses, blame-shifting, gaslighting and normalizing aberrant behavior.

In all, mainstream news media’s coverage of Arlington is another example pointing to its institutional failures where Trump’s aberrant and dangerous behavior is normalized as it is processed through the endless churn of the attention economy and the 24/7 news cycle.

So in addition to the headline about like an emergency landing in a plane . . . the fact that this one was happening a few miles from my home immediately caught my attention, just because the first instinct that comes up is like, "This is something out of the ordinary, something aberrant or abnormal must have happened."

He was detached from reality—in a manner that was even more extreme than his normally aberrant standards.

The abnormal and aberrant are being presented as normal and desirable.