Men like that often have effective personal reality-distortion fields that make them charming socially. There have been reports that Adolf was that way.

Re-framing is a good name for the most irritating tactic when it is used against you. For example, here on the Cat there is a small handful of people who take any effort at factual dialogue and re-frame instanter into a collision of ad-hominem insults and huge generalities.   To reframe them back is a wonderful skill indeed.

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