I believe it is. See my reply to DrSoap in this thread for details, but it’s a famously difficult task to put oneself in the mind of another, especially one with a definable mental illness. It’s much simpler to imagine evil being an intentional act. It allows us to hate a person we consider evil without any strings attached, because it was their choice to be evil. It’s a bit uncomfortable to imagine evil acts being caused by a mental condition that’s listed right alongside autism and schizophrenia, which we usually consider as sympathetic, but I think that’s what we’re dealing with. Most of his followers get roped in with a cult ideology, which is its own bag of worms. To clarify, I don’t see this as an excuse, only a reason. It’s hard to remember that, in his mind, he’s doing the right thing, because he’s doing what’s best for himself, and that is the only thing that has any value to him. I try to view this sort of thing the way I would see a rabid dog. I don’t hate the dog, and I know it’s not the dogs fault that it has rabies, but that doesn’t mean that it can keep going around biting people either. He has to go away.

In case anyone reads all that, and their only take away is that I don’t hate Trump, yes I do, he’s in the worst category of humans that plague the planet, but I try to keep these things in mind, because unbridled hate only and always leads to more hate.