the.com/defeatist
Someone who's already lost the argument with themselves before anyone else shows up.
means A person who expects failure and gives up early, treating defeat as inevitable rather than possible.
from From French defaitisme, coined during World War I to brand those urging surrender as morally suspect — pessimism reframed as near-treason.
Wartime stigmaOriginally an accusation, not a personality type.
Self-fulfillingExpecting failure quietly engineers it.
Not pessimismPessimists predict doom; defeatists surrender to it.