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Originally Posted by sexobon

In the context of the OP, "it" is Trump's outlandish behavior. While it's psychological effect may have been benign in the entertainment industry and just epidemic in business, it's being put forward as an etiology for a psychiatric pandemic distinct from that caused by his political fallout. It's a slippery slope as there will be much overlap.

One sees that kind of overlap in trying to distinguish leadership from management. Many don't recognize the difference and use the terms interchangeably even though leadership has been recognized as having characteristics distinct from management since Genghis Khan wrote on the subject during his campaigns of the 13th century.

Much as the military community will more readily recognize the difference between leadership and management, so too will the mental health community recognize the difference between the affects of Trump's personality and those of his actions.

Oversimplified, management is about the bottom line, leadership is about how you get there. One can loosely associate Trump's personality with his leadership and his actions with his management. His actions will have the greater impact, that's the bottom line (see what I did there). That doesn't mean his personality can't have its own, distinct impact and that it's magnitude can't come close in some situations.

Thanks. I'm with ya now.