“a person who is their ideas” rather than “a person who has ideas.”

This is the hallmark of people who suffer from narcissistic personality disorder.

They have no Freudian EGO and are ruled by their ID (limbic/reptilian brain) and a pseudo super-ego (which is not a super-ego at all...it is actually the voice in their head that forms all of their self criticism-an angry, absent, non-supportive parent, that foists shame around their necks like an anvil and chains).

Because they have no EGO (they cannot differentiate reality from their internalized image of what they "feel" the outside world is). They then invent (subconsciously) a false ego and become a "person of their ideas" rather than a "person with ideas".

They have to do this because they are not a PERSON as they have no EGO that balances their ID with a super-ego (societal norms/morality/conscience). They are empty shells...petulant beings...who are completely emotionally dis-regulated, and who have a failure in object relations (i.e. they are gods in their own mind, anyone else who does not agree with them are wrong and are to be shamed....they CANNOT accept and deviation from what they imagine the the world to be...they are actually living in a delusion where they are the supreme being).

You cannot begin to wrap your head around why they do what they do, unless you completely understand that they suffer from classic narcissistic personality disorder, along with different degrees of other personality B disorders. Their emotional dis-regulation absolutely PROVES this.

Essentially, they have the emotional age of about a 1.5 to 3 year old.

They were unable to develop a true sense of their own self do to some sort of complex trauma they endured in their formative years.

They cannot imagine a world where another being disagrees with their delusional world view, because they do not interact with the outside world in a normal fashion.

They interact with the interjects of the outside world that they have created in their own mind (which usually is an inaccurate representation of the outside world). Because of this, any variance between their view of the outside world, and a position of someone in the outside world is viewed purely as a THREAT to their existence.

Does this make sense?

People with this personality have a tendency to by highly in favor of authoritarian regimes. They need the outside world to march in lock-step with their own delusion, so that it can give them narcissistic supply, confirming that they are in fact "right" and providing them with higher "status" in society.

I am not making this crap up. It is all in the psychological studies on the topic.

Its the dirty little secret no one wants to talk about, to whit:

These people are batshit crazy. Period. QED.

You can't reason with them. THey are broken.