Have you Met a Psychopath? | Jon Ronson and Brian Klaas on Power

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Does power corrupt, or are corrupt people drawn to power? How do you tell if your leader is a psychopath? Are we drawn to following bad people? To find out, Brian Klaas met presidents, philanthropists, cultists and dictators. He tells his story to Jon Ronson.
Dr Brian Klaas is an Associate Professor in Global Politics at University College London and a columnist for the Washington Post. Klaas is also a frequent television commentator and political consultant. He was previously based at the London School of Economics and the University of Oxford. He is also the host of the Power Corrupts podcast. He has advised governments, US political campaigns, NATO, the European Union, multi-billion dollar investors, international NGOs, and international politicians. On UA-cam, Brian has been featured on CNN (strongmen leaders), MSNBC (Corruption in the republican party, dictators, authoritarianism), David Pakman Show, TEDx Talks, BBC Newsnight, Skeptic and Forward with Andrew Yang.
Jon Ronson is a journalist, author, and filmmaker whose works include Them: Adventures with Extremists, The Men Who Stare at Goats, and The Psychopath Test. He has published nine books and his work has appeared in publications such as The Guardian, City Life and Time Out. He has made several BBC Television documentary films and two documentary series for Channel 4. On UA-cam, Jon has been featured on TED (psychopath test, one tweet can ruin your life), JRE Clips (fake martial artist, Bohemian Grove), GANT (Couple thinkers), RiverheadBooks (the psychopath test), Russell Howard, Shaun Attwood, PoliticsJOE, BBC Sounds, Times Radio and The Moth.

[@DawnSTyler]

I’m so glad this topic is being discussed. I’ve read a lot of the books you’ve mentioned and been interested in the topic of psychopathy for a number of years. As soon as I understood what one was, I realized that politics would appeal to their temperament and then I looked for more written on this combination. At the time, I found nothing and was very disappointed and thought how sorely needed such a book was. When Trump came into power, I immediately recognized what he was based on my previous study and pointed it out to as many people as I could. What I discovered was that most people knew very little about what psychopathy actually was. At that time most dismissed my take and assumed I was talking strictly about crazy serial killers and thought that meant that anything else could not be considered psychopathy. Since Trump, many more have explained the details (thank god) - largely because I think we could all tell something was very wrong with Trump but most did not understand what they were picking up on. Thank you, thank you for writing this book. The world needs to understand this - so desperately.

[@kennethobrien8386]

Interesting.

[@ymmas321]

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[@fellsmoke]

Putin? WTF aren't labels wonderful, no context required.

[@davidighernandez]

Zelenski has proven not to be what this guy's thought he was... He is a maniac!