As Yogi Berra would say, "You could look it up." Arianna Huffington outlines in the LA Times the telltale signs of fanaticism in the White House.

Dr. Norman Doidge, professor of psychiatry at the University of Toronto, lists among the telltale symptoms of fanatics: an intolerance of dissent; a doctrine riddled with contradictions; the belief that one's cause has been blessed or even commanded by God; and the use of reinforcement techniques, such as repetition, to spread one's message

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