Well put. There is a theory that malignant narcissism and related conditions, like sociopathy, are just the result of arrested development. The theory is that all children have a natural narcissist/sociopathic period of their development, but some people never grow out of it, probably because they lack strong father figures to teach them their proper place.
I think there is a similar trend going on with leftists.
The Ronaldus Magnus pretty much captures the premise of Libtardism.....
Ronald Reagan — ‘It isn’t so much that liberals are ignorant. It’s just that they know so many things that aren’t so.’