Obama’s mistaken belief that others see the world as he sees it

Published March 5, 2014 5:00am ET



Solipsism. It’s a fancy word which means that you assume others see the world as you do and will behave as you would.

It’s a quality often found in narcissists, people who greatly admire themselves — like a presidential candidate confident that he is a better speechwriter than his speechwriters, knows more about policy than his policy directors and is a better political director than his political director.

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