"Virtue"/"Victim"-Signaling Correlated With Dark Triad Characteristics?

The hysterical fringe of the left is obviously composed largely of people with psychological problems--that's not exactly a secret. And some kind of psychological or characterological flaw almost has to be involved in the creation and willing acceptance of the progressive left's delusional worldview...

   Could it be the "dark triad"? 

   Well, I find the suggestion congenial, but mostly because it's insulting.

   So I'm probably not the guy to ask.

   Also, I don't know much about this sector of psychology.

   But this seems prima facie pretty plausible:

  Their conclusion? Psychopathic, manipulative, and narcissistic people are more frequent signalers of "virtuous victimhood."
   The so-called "dark triad" personality traits—Machiavellianism, narcissism, and psychopathy—lead to characteristics like "self-promotion, emotional callousness, duplicity, and tendency to take advantage of others," the paper explains.
   And "treated as a composite, the Dark Triad traits were significant predictors of virtuous victim signaling."
   This held true "even when controlling for factors that may make people vulnerable to being mistreated or disadvantaged in society (i.e., demographic and socioeconomic characteristics) as well as the importance they place on being a virtuous individual as part of their self-concept," the researchers note.
   They point out that virtue signaling is defined as "the conspicuous expression of moral values, done primarily with the intent of enhancing one's standing within a social group."
   Meanwhile, victim signaling "may be used as a social influence tactic that can motivate recipients of the signal to voluntarily transfer resources to the signaler," they explain.