Most don't believe in narcissists but they do usually sense "something is off" about that person, but never connect the dots on what they're dealing with. Normies just dismiss it as "That person is an a**hole". A person can be a jerk and be normal.

One movie that portrays a narcissistic mother is "Mommie Dearest" which is based on the tell-all novel by her daughter (victim):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0FNSuJ437w

You're dealing with legions of "Mommie Dearest" with plenty of "innocent victims" nearby to take out all their rage.

The infamous wire hanger scene (that the real life adopted daughter went through) would be familiar to many here who've witnessed Leftists meltdowns. They go this insane.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZEYYF6PpEg

(Check out the comments. Many children live under these kind of parents.)

Most sheeple chuckle at this scene and refuse to believe it happened despite the real life daughter saying it happened. Children raised by narcissistic parents know these kind of experiences well, but when they try to tell people just how severe the abuse is no one believes them. The narcissistic parent will put on a show and tell everyone their kid is prone to exaggerations.

This article even describes how often the victims of these abusers are not believed.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2008/may/25/biography.film

She is not without her detractors. Over the years several of Joan Crawford’s peers, including her first husband, Douglas Fairbanks Jr, and the actress Myrna Loy, have disputed Christina’s recollections, accusing her of embellishments and make-believe. Two of Crawford’s other adopted children, twin sisters Cathy and Cindy, publicly claimed Christina lied, insisting their mother was a loving parent, firm but never abusive. Although three decades have passed, the sibling feud is unresolved. Both Cindy and Crawford’s adopted son, Christopher, died recently but mutual animosity remains deeply entrenched across the generations. Casey LaLonde, Cathy’s 36-year-old son, tells me by phone from his home in Philadelphia that his mother still remembers ‘a very loving household. She [Joan] was a very affectionate, supportive, doting mother, a wonderful person. I have always been very careful not to call Christina a liar but clearly she had a completely different experience from my mother and my Aunt Cindy.’

Perhaps, I venture, the twins had more docile personalities and were more capable of submitting to their mother’s controlling nature? She laughs sharply. ‘Maybe. What my mother wanted was fans and puppies, not human beings. She was as close to being a totally manufactured person as I’ve ever met.’

Triangulation, one of the narcissists favorite tools. They're a sweetheart to everyone but the scapegoat who is singled out and ruthlessly tormented. That's how the get away with their monstrous crimes in plain view. Because ONLY the victim experiences it.

Narcissists gaslight and triangulate. Ever meet a person who changed in an instant and was horrible, but the minute someone walked in the room they became all sunshine and roses. When you try to tell others they're insane, they laugh it off as an "exaggeration". That person is so kind and loving.

It's how serial killers and child abusers can live so safely in quiet neighborhoods.

Narcissists plan out interactions like a script in their head. If you argue with one they won't actually acknowledge what you said, but try to pressure back to their "scrip"/ "narrative". If you go off script they'll continue to argue with the words they wrote for you instead of what you said.

To defeat narcissists you must drag them out into the sunlight. Few people will realize their evil if they don't see it for themselves. Only once they're exposed can you directly confront. If you do it before then, they'll make you look like the bad guy.

Once they are revealed then you can begin the direct confrontation and beatdown. You have to show people. You can't tell them.