Red
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The same skills of a master demagogue. Instinctively recognizing the fear and anger present in large numbers of fellow citizens, who are experiencing the strain of the many stresses of modernity, both economic, and in terms of culture wars revolving around deeply held beliefs, some rooted in religious beliefs, the demagogue that is Donald Trump recognized these very opportunities and took his eventual base by storm, with a goodly % of that base enveloped in cultish traps that will ever make it hard to see clearly. Few see golden opportunities like Trump, and have the skill to abuse them to his extent. A wannabe mob boss who settled for the Oval Office…
That’s how he used his skills once in office: not to be a president for all Americans, but a manipulative power driven man with zero moral fiber, zero moral character. A skilled demagogue has to have his/her pulse on the fears and anger present in his/her lifetime, if he/she is going to successfully pull off the power play he accomplished.
He used his skills for ends that help define him as the worst president in American history.
Then again, his sale pitch can also also seem a bit below the dignity of a former president, and the dignity of one who would actually ask to be president again! Actually, I must be kidding mentioning Trump and dignity in the same thought, lol. Running these sales pitches by my sister yesterday, she replied: “It’s unbelievable isn’t it. All the things going on in the world and he’s selling golden sneakers!”
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