IRL narcissists have predictable patterns of behavior. (The uninitiated think narcissists are wild cards, but if you know enough of them you'll see the patterns.)
It's a mix of sympathy ploys, sudden and unexpected spiteful remarks or caustic insults, and fleeting (often backhanded) compliments, leavened by a lot of self-absorption. The bitchy brew is (subconsciously) designed to keep friends and acquaintances walking on eggshells around them. It's a classic strategy of intermittent and brief rewards, prompt punishments whenever the narcissist feels besmirched, and just enough charm to keep people in the narcissist's orbit. It has similarities to co-dependent, psychologically abusive relationships.
What I've noticed is that narcissists fear and loathe any person who can't be recruited to the narcissist's self-love cause. This fear and confusion is so strong, because it's so unfamiliar, that the narcissist will simply cut that person out of her life, to the great benefit of the recipient and to the lingering simmering rage of the narcissist. There are plenty of suckers to play along, but all it takes is one who won't to really get under the narcissist's skin. If you want to know what "can't get over it" looks like, observe the rejected narcissist. Her ego is so huge that a thousand fluffings can be deflated by one self-confident and judgmental soul slayer who won't join her chorus of admirers.
The same phenomenon will happen on a larger scale with leftoids, who are as a class very narcissistic. If the Narcissist Left Establishment endures enough mockery and rejection (that is, NOT acting like a cuck when the NLE plays the victim and aggressor simultaneously) they will retreat from their tormentors to spare what little is left of their shredded egos.
A Left that has retreated from the social and political spheres is victory for the righteous.
