If a narcissist is defined as a person with a grandiose self-image, always right and righteous and lacking empathy my guess is they don't give or receive a whole lot of love.
Such demands are righteous -- but lack integrity and credibility when the same standards are not applied to President Obama, whose continuation of the Bush "war on terror" under revamped rhetoric has bypassed international law as well as "civilized behavior".
There's a lack of righteous fury, and of material that is close to the bone.
There have been on-line petitions demanding access to Cyberknife for all cancer patients; politicians apparently believing that they have a duty to see Cyberknife installed in their local cancer centre; the media carrying pages of righteous indignation over the lack of "life-saving Cyberknife treatment" and consequently people fighting cancer and their families caught up in the frenzy.
But today's black Americans lacked the "righteous indignation" of their forebears in the 1950s and 1960s.
Sure, it may have been lacking in righteous ire, but the point still stands.
Thus, as the affair dragged on, Starr was effectively portrayed as a self-righteous prig, who, lacking any sense of proportion, had gone on a monomaniacal crusade to "get" the President.
Once, feminism's second wave seemed to answer this lack, marshalling with righteous purpose the chaos of being Vivian Gornick, child of the Bronx circa 1935, born of one unquiet era and pitched headlong into the next.
While serving as the moderator on the "The View," which should be renamed "Rosie and the People Who Try to Get a Word in Edgewise," O'Donnell spewed a self-righteous tirade about Trump's lack of moral authority and the hypocrisy of his offering anyone a second chance.
You could feel self-righteous and blame the other for lack of integrity, but that wouldn't improve things.
