There is a subset of people across the political spectrum whose behavior is driven by an underlying psychopathological condition rather than purely by political beliefs.

“So he's not talking about people who purely have a set of political beliefs. He's talking about what sort of sits under their political beliefs that there is a subset of people, and they and this crosses the political spectrum.”

Some individuals who gain fame or power within a political movement may be motivated by narcissistic self-interest rather than a genuine belief in the movement's stated causes.

“It's not about the what. It's about how people hijack the narrative for their own what he said narcissistic, which is where it's really about, you know, me and how can I how can I get society to serve me? Um that behavior.”

A small percentage of the population possesses cluster B personality traits and seeks power by adopting political ideologies solely to advance their narcissistic goals.

“The problem is that 4 to 5% of the population, something like that, is cluster B, that's the DSM-5 terms, histrionic, narcissistic, antisocial, psychopathic, or they have and they have dark tetrad traits. They're Machiavellian, they're sadistic. That's about 4%. Okay, so the question is how do these”