Read: Too Much and Never Enough

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| November 13, 2020

- Finished Reading: Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man by Mary L. Trump

In this revelatory, authoritative portrait of Donald J. Trump and the toxic family that made him, Mary L. Trump, a trained clinical psychologist and Donald’s only niece, shines a bright light on the dark history of their family in order to explain how her uncle became the man who now threatens the world’s health, economic security, and social fabric.

It didn’t blow my mind, especially since Sarah Kendzior had already alluded to a fair bit of this in Hiding in Plain Sight, but it’s nice to have this all on record.

I’ll admit that my view of Trump changed considerably after reading this. I knew he was a man with particularly self-absorbed, hurtful habits, but reading this book allowed me to see him as a walking bundle of intense defense mechanisms. It was a real “emperor has no clothes” moment.