This is what can happen when someone hasn’t cried since infancy. They become Donald Trump. They live from an armored heart. They are incapacitated with respect to empathy. They have no ability to form and sustain healthy bonds. They have a tendency toward misplaced aggression. They are internally (and hence externally) unstable. They have sociopathic and psychopathic tendencies. They have an egoic hole that can never be filled.

Trump boasts about his crylessness, as though it is a sign of strength, but it's not an indicator of strength. It’s an indicator of trauma. It’s an indicator of emotional illness. It’s an indicator that he was in so much pain that he had to stop feeling. In watching him, you are seeing what happens to a human being when they are frozen in time. Crying is not just necessary for healthy functioning. It’s essential for healthy development. It’s fundamental to the transition from babyhood to adulthood. He can’t act like an adult, because he hasn’t developed into one yet. He is still back there, in his cryless crib, in the repressive regime that is his inner life. All those unshed tears and unresolved wounds have congealed within, and permanently falsified his inner world. He can't feel compassion, because he can't feel his heart. It’s little wonder he lies all the time. His inner life is built on a foundation of inauthenticity. It’s all lies outside, because it’s all lies inside.

After all is said and done, we will realize that all the horrors we have seen with this man, are in direct proportion to the horror that is his inner life. He is living out his internalized pain and anger, in his outer world projections. He imagines himself strong, when in fact, he is a cowardly child. He tantrums against humanity, because he doesn’t have the egoic strength to confront his underlying trauma. And that's why he won’t wear a mask. Because his whole life is already a mask.

The sooner he goes back to his New York pentcrib, the better. And the next time you vote for a president, ask him how often he cries. And if his answer is “never”, don’t vote for him. - Jeff Brown