Greengordon<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/@johncarlosbaez" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>johncarlosbaez</span></a></span> </p><p>"The Trumpian lie is different. It is the power lie or the bully lie. It is the lie of the bigger kid who took your hat and is wearing it while denying that he took it. There is no defense against this lie because the point of the lie is to assert power, to show I can say what I want, when I want to. </p><p>"The power lie conjures a different reality that demands that you choose between your experience and the bully's demands."</p><p><a href="https://spore.social/tags/narcissism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>narcissism</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/PowerLie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PowerLie</span></a></p>