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Originally Posted by QuikSand
Trump has a nonstandard charisma, for certain. He's very gifted at a certain kind of persuasion-based communication/messaging... it's not for everyone, but it's very effective with the swath of people who respond to it.
Not everyone buys the snake oil, or falls for the predatory traveling revival, either -- but that brand of hucksterism has made plenty of people wealthy over time. That's the comparison, I think, not actual statesmen.
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Cult of Personality/Narcissist who has been enabled by his family and people with money around him. He's honed the things that work, and he's had good reinforcement along the way of what doesn't. Cult leaders don't need practice. They feed off that adulation and it just makes them a bit crazier and their followers more extreme and devoted. You see it across many, many cults.