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They noted, among other things, Trump’s tendency to “ramble, meander, and crudely lash out at his many perceived grievances.”

Attorney General Merrick B. Garland, facing a contempt vote in Congress, will lash out at House Republicans on Tuesday, accusing his critics of seeking to undermine the rule of law, peddling “conspiracy theories” and spreading falsehoods, according to his prepared remarks.

"They will feel shame, they might even feel guilt — but they tend to lash out at people who bring up that sense of shame by letting them know they did something bad. Psychopathic and sociopathic people tend not to care at that assessment that they've just done a bad thing."

Instead, they lash out at the skeptics, insisting that people outside the cult are the ones with a problem.

In her writings on the origins of misogyny, philosopher Kate Manne roots the phenomenon in male entitlement, arguing that men want to lash out at women who are denying them what they feel they are owed, whether it's submission, attention, or sex.