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[–] hansolo@lemm.ee 7 points 5 days ago

The dichotomy here is that he is actually smart about exploiting a sort of populist charisma that makes idiots feel empowered by him. Bill Clinton had it as well. Manipulating people in a solid range to just love you. That one thing is his super power, and once he's leveraged it, he's invincible to accountability because he just keeps moving, manipulating more people to survive and thrive despite a literal wake of destruction behind him.