so interesting but #truth

this.

"Where did Trump acquire his appreciation for the power of fear and his bullying ways? As his biographer, I locate the key moment in the summer of his thirteenth year, when his exasperated parents notified him that he was being sent away to military school because he was too unruly. Cast out of the family home, he did become more disciplined, but he also became the man who would tell me he enjoyed "all types of fights, even physical." 

"As an adult, whether he was feuding with Mayor Ed Koch in the 1980s or attacking comedian Rosie O'Donnell and others more recently, Trump has regularly demonstrated his willingness to engage in public conflicts as a kind of sport. In business he readily filed lawsuits or defied those who would hold him to contracts. "When someone attacks me, I always attack back ... except 100x more," he boasted from the safety of Twitter in 2012. "This has nothing to do with a tirade but rather, a way of life!" These threats and displays of aggression showed that he wasn't like other people."

"For a sense of how effective the bully's posturing can be, consider the examples of Republican Senators Lindsay Graham and Ted Cruz. Both men ran for the GOP presidential nomination against Trump. In that race Graham said Trump was a "race baiting, xenophobic, religious bigot." Cruz called him a "pathological liar" and mused that there was something "fundamentally wrong" with evangelical Christians who supported him.

Defeated in the primary elections and faced with the reality of Trump's dominance of the Republican Party, Graham and Cruz became his acolytes. Amid the recent "go back" controversy Graham has refused to condemn Trump's racism and Cruz has only noted the "heated rhetoric."

In their silence, Cruz, Graham and others who won't stand up to the bully are like children on the schoolyard who tremble at the thought of being separated from the group, and so throw in their lot with the bully. Uncertain if others would join them in standing up for what's right, they give in to the fear of being next on Trump's hit list."