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I grew up in a time when we argued that people are naturally good. If something went wrong with your environment, you might end up doing bad things. You might become the rare person who cheated, stole or killed. But you could be reformed if people took the time to be helpful.

Even then we knew about the Holocaust and all the hard workers it took to murder millions of people. We had theories about what had shaped workers committed to mass murder. They were different from us--they were foreigners who had been misshaped by too-strict forms of toilet training. 

In my life it may be the case that there has not been a single day on which a genocide was not taking place somewhere on this planet.

I have to admit that 60,000,000  tRump voters have modified my view of human nature. tRump voters enjoy caging brown children and grabbing women by the private parts. They love a man who can shock brown people and the educated. Watching a billionaire harm minorities, women and children makes tRump voters feel better. 

We can describe people like tRump and his voters. tRump is a malevolent narcissist. But after a century of studying the brain and the mind, we still don't know how tRumps get made. We have primitive, competing theories that do not satisfy. We have found no cure for narcissism.

Science has a way to go. In the meantime I'm with John Oliver, who said on Sunday, "Ted Cruz can suck my balls."