While Trump does resemble a lizard in that he operates on habit and the instinct of a mob boss, he nonetheless possesses near the middle of his brain, an amygdala, the first, and sometimes only, receptor of and reaction to fear and/or aggression.

Countering the sometimes clumsy reflexes of the amygdala is the evolutionary newest part of our brain, the prefrontal cortex.

As an example of the role of each, is a white policeman's fear reactions, first to a black person, then to that black person's reaching into his pocket and withdrawing what the amygdala interprets as a gun, while milliseconds later, his prefrontal cortex says, "damn, it was a cellphone."

An excitatory sensory reaction's error costs a life that the inhibitory message from the "reasoning" frontal part of the brain was too late to restrain.

On the other hand, the white policeman whose amygdala does not light up with unnecessary fear, first to the race of the black person, then to the 'reaching', receives the benefit of reasoned training over reflex, and arrests rather than shoots.

A person whose amygdala has been enlarged by a constant flow of fear- inducing neural messages, research shows, is unable to make good prefrontal decisions.

Today's sensory sledgehammers coming from the Manafort and Cohen trials will be little offset by the planned narcissistic-gorging at tonight's West Virginia rally. Trump's amygdala has grown too large with fear, guaranteeing prefrontal decisions more erratic than those we've seen of late, such as repealing sanctions on Russia; more erractic perhaps than from any president in our country's history; more erratic, perhaps, than from any leader in the history of the world.

I would build a fire and roast marshmallows if his behavior endangered only himself But I can't celebrate the threat to our country this totally consumed pseudo-leader inflicts with every juvenile-deprived "hit 'em back" amygdala induced twitter rampage.