![]() Part of the solution, some observers say, is to re-cultivate the civic virtues that foster democratic debate, and a civility that makes the addictive properties of narcissistic rage less acceptable. So how have we come to this moment? One answer may lie in the difference between what could be called righteous anger and its self-righteous counterpart, “narcissistic anger,” in which every perceived indignity is an assault on an individual’s oversized sense of identity. It threatens what observers have for centuries seen as America’s boundless optimism, its particular civic faith that the future can be better and that Americans have a duty to make it that way. Many Americans today feel a deep sense of unease, perceiving that the nation is now descending deeper into what many call a politics of rage. ![]()
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