WND Magazine Smears Liberals As Psychopaths, Rehashes Old Attacks On Obama

WorldNetDaily managing editor David Kupelian’s sparsely read Whistleblower magazine has insisted that Democrats and liberals hate women, are child sex traffickers, are godless communists, are in league with Satan or are inciting violence (and probably all of them at once). The March issue of the magazine took the next step, with the theme “It’s Trump vs. the Swamp Psychopaths.” It was promoted by laughably insisting that smearing people who don’t slavishly follow the same far-right ideology Kupelian and crew do is not viciously partisan at all but a “serious” exercise:

“That’s crazy! Our leaders must be insane!”

That’s basically how most Americans react to much of what they see going on around them every single day.

From the Biden administration’s enthusiastic support for amputating body parts of troubled children, to its obsession with bringing as many millions of illegal aliens as possible into America, to its recent demand that U.S. airlines employ more people, including pilots, with “severe intellectual” and “psychiatric” problems, it’s increasingly clear that many of America’s current leaders are, to put it plainly, stark raving mad.

But making this statement is not an exercise in calling one’s political opponents nasty names, as happens so often today.

Rather, it’s about taking a serious look at the reality that America’s current leaders are indeed genuinely insane – in a clinically diagnosable way. We’re talking about rampant sociopathy, psychopathy, Borderline Personality Disorder, Narcissistic Personality Disorder and other scary-sounding conditions whose clinical symptom-pictures perfectly match many of today’s leaders.

Of course, many cases of what the secular psychiatric world labels serious “mental illness” ultimately boil down to individuals who, one way or another, willingly or unwillingly, have fallen into the grip of dark spiritual forces.

One could say that Kupelian’s employer continuing to follow its well-worn editorial path of fake news and conspiracy theories even though doing so has cost it much of its revenue is a sign of sociopathy. But self-reflection is not the point here — projection is. The piece went on to claim:

Yet it’s illuminating to briefly explore how current research in psychiatry – a field ironically dominated largely by the left – nevertheless has concluded that leftist radicals and leaders are, more often than not, “way out there” on the spectrum of serious mental illness.

For example, in a groundbreaking peer-reviewed study published in March 2023, titled “Understanding left-wing authoritarianism: Relations to the dark personality traits, altruism, and social justice commitment,” authors Dr. Ann Krispenz and Dr. Alexander Bertrams found that left-wing extremism is closely associated with “psychopathic tendencies.”

“Narcissistic individuals and those with psychopathic tendencies are more likely to strongly endorse left-wing antihierarchical aggression,” summarized the widely cited PsyPost website, which reports the latest research on human behavior.

Unsurprisingly, WND promoted this study when it came out last year. In a side note, the promotional article concluded with this “important note” about skipping an issue:

Important note: Although last month’s Whistleblower issue was dated “January,” we are labeling this issue “March” simply to catch up – that is, to better align each Whistleblower issue’s date with when print subscribers actually receive their magazines in the mail. So, while there’s no issue dated “February,” subscribers will still receive a full 12 editions with their one-year subscription. Thanks for your understanding!

Kupelian’s essay for the issue, published at WND on March 4, hypocritically rehashed old complaints that Donald Trump was unfavorably likened to Nazis:

Of course, it’s this same “conservatives are evil” belief that underlies the left’s continual and epically deranged comparison of President Donald Trump with Adolf Hitler, hands-down the most reviled, genocidal mass murderer in world history. Yet top Democrat politicians including Joe Biden – as well as the “mainstream” media – have continually likened Trump to Hitler since before he was elected president in 2016 and continuing to today, eight years later.

Yet if Trump really is another Hitler, where exactly are all of his Hitler-like policies and actions? After all, the man was president of the United States and leader of the free world for four extremely important years. So, what are all these evil practices that justify such a comparison?

In reality, of course, Trump’s policies were right in line with the values and sensibilities of the vast, center-right American middle class that has long constituted this nation’s moral, economic and spiritual backbone. America’s economy was stable and strong under Trump, unemployment was at historic lows, perverse trade agreements were replaced with fair, pro-American ones, border enforcement was a priority, America’s military was being rebuilt, and the world was free of major wars due to Trump’s personal strength and leadership.

Needless to say, Kupelian forgot to mention how enthusiastically his employer likened Barack Obama to various Nazis, or that his boss, Joseph Farah, made the same comparison about President Biden.

Kupelian then rehashed old smears by armchair psychologists about Obama:

Let’s rewind a few years and briefly focus on Barack Obama, since much of today’s societal madness began or accelerated because of him, and a great many people believe Obama is calling the shots in Washington, D.C. today. And of course, Obama’s wife Michelle is increasingly considered a top contender for becoming the Democrats’ presidential candidate later this year.

Many Americans believe, and some widely respected voices have said so publicly, that Barack Obama is a “sociopath” or “psychopath.” (For the record, though numerous psychology articles attempt to differentiate between “sociopathy” and “psychopathy,” in the end the analysis always boils down to the two being essentially the same, with “psychopaths” just being a little worse than “sociopaths.”) In 2016, Dr. Ben Carson referred to Obama on camera as a “psychopath.” The aforementioned columnist-author Charles Krauthammer, a psychiatrist by training, dubbed Obama a “narcissist” who “talks like the emperor, Napoleon.” Pulitzer prize-winning columnist George Will wrote about “Barack Obama’s intellectual sociopathy.” And so on.

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During the Obama administration, this writer communicated frequently with veteran forensic psychiatrist Lyle Rossiter, M.D., who suggested a slightly different diagnosis for Obama, but similar to “sociopathy” – namely, “Malignant Narcissistic Personality Disorder.” The modifier “malignant” signified the version of “Narcissistic Personality Disorder” that may cross over into criminality, he explained.

Rossiter, who has since passed away, had been retained as an expert in more than 2,700 civil and criminal cases and was a genuine world-class authority in forensic psychiatry, which is the intersection between criminal behavior and mental disorders. He carefully reviewed with me a list of some of the major symptoms of Narcissistic Personality Disorder, comparing them with Obama’s behavior as president. Here are a few of the key markers: 1) a grandiose view of one’s achievements (everything with Obama was “historic”), 2) an utter inability to handle criticism (everyone criticizing Obama or his policies was attacked as an “extremist” or “racist”), and 3) lack of genuine empathy.

As we’ve documented, Rossiter had a habit of taking Obama statements out of context to justify his smears. Kupelian, of course, has no interest in examining Trump’s psyche, even though he has been credibly accused of having sociopathic and psychopathic tendencies. This is all about projection, not self-reflection, remember?