Why We Elect Narcissists and Sociopaths—and How We Can StopBy: Bill Eddy The bestselling author and therapist describes how electing high conflict personalitiesfrom Hitler and Mao to Putin and Trumpthreatens democracy. Democracy is under siege. The reason isnt politics but personalities: too many countries have come under the sway of high conflict people (HCPs) who have become politicians. Most of these high conflict politicians have traits of narcissistic personality disorder, antisocial (i. e., sociopathic)