Watching a Trump rally, and listening to his stream of consciousness rants, and the crowd's response, it's not hard to see the personality cult aspect to his candidacy. I imagine every campaign has followers that are buying into a personality cult, but with Trump what surprises me is how such a degree of crudeness and ignorance and low brow boorishness could ever get this far as a personality people would gravitate to in the first place. A 4th rate intellect, if that, it's as if we're gonna put one of the Three Stooges in the Oval Office. But there will be no yuk, yuk, yuk under this stooge.
His delivery is so often like that of a wise guy punk, with the facial expressions that only add to that impression. The man is an ignoramus, like no other in my lifetime to run for the Presidency.
I guess if a mass democracy can make it possible for such a crude buffoon to actually pull it off, then maybe it will actually be better when AI imposes a dictatorship of robots. I don't think I'm joking. Listening to the crowd respond to Trump, it's the crowd, not Trump, that really concerns me. People really are that stupid. Pretty damn elitist of me, but really, people need to be protected from themselves if they think things are so bad it's OK to make Donald Trump President.
I think if he is elected, he'll make these rallies a staple of his term. Won't be able to live without them. Him and his followers. Maybe he really is just building a cult. If every candidate for President has followers that can easily fall into the role of personality cult members, maybe Trump is actually creating a personality cult Presidency. More cult leader then elected official. More infallible leader then one of the people. Chief Peacock, not Chief Executive.
He really does seem to take every little slight personally, doesn't he? We could be seeing a pretty sick puppy get elected President here methinks. I hope it happens in an alternate universe.