2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: It should be no shock to anyone if the Electoral College elects someone other than Trump [View all]onenote
(44,662 posts)or other forms of remote diagnosis by amateurs or professionals, I will acknowledge that based on my limited, non professional understanding of the condition, Trump clearly has a narcissistic personality and probably other forms of clinically recognizable mental issues.
But ultimately the Constitution imposes no standard on how electors decide who to vote for and why. They are, in the words of Justice Douglas, "free agents". We can hope that they do the right thing, but there is no way to compel them to vote for, or not vote for, any particular candidate and no way to subject their decision making process to scrutiny or second-guessing.
For the record, by the way, there are some mental health professionals that have suggested that quite a few past presidents exhibited some form of mental illness before, during, or after they became president. And I think a number of historians would argue that Andrew Jackson was nuttier than a fruitcake.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-squeaky-wheel/201602/study-half-all-presidents-suffered-mental-illness