What Stage Of Erikson's Is tRump?

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2. Erikson's stages don't really apply to a malignant narcissist with dementia

Narcissism and dementia are better explanations for what’s wrong with Trump than any developmental analysis.

Reminder: Erickson’s stages are laid out as a series of binary challenges everyone faces as they age. Which side of the struggle that dominates each stage can set the path for the challenges of future stages.

Given his age, comments about not going to heaven, and his desperate flailing attempts to create a superficial “legacy” for himself by building his ballroom, arch and renaming stuff after himself, it’s pretty clear he’s losing the battle to “Assess and make sense of life and meaning of contributions” and is on the brink of succumbing to despair, since he clearly has no integrity.