“It’s not as if we didn’t see some of this coming,” said Barack Obama, a note of bleak humour in his voice. “I will admit it’s worse than even I expected, but I did warn y’all!”
The crowd at a sports arena in Norfolk, Virginia, half-laughed and half-groaned. “I did,” Obama added. “You can run the tape.”
Now Obama is back on the campaign trail, for Democrats running for governor in New Jersey and Virginia. It gives him a platform to deliver an alternative State of the Union address. And the gloves are off.
To hear the expectant buzz of the 7,000-plus crowd in Norfolk as candidate Abigail Spanberger promised that Obama’s entrance was just moments away was to be reminded that Democrats did once have a president who could match Trump’s superstar charisma.
I’m so sick of people saying this dipshit with diarrhea of the mouth is charismatic.
The problem is: he is charismatic to other dipshits with diarrhea of the mouth.
He’s persuasive to idiots. That’s not the same thing as charismatic
When the number idiots is sizeble percentage of the voting population, sadly it does count.
He is charismatic. He does grab people. Hitler was also charismatic, undeniably so, a great orator. Trump is incoherently charismatic in comparison 😆
If we compare Trump to a phishing email, they are remarkably close.
Use of language: Phishing emails usually incorporate misspellings and bad grammar, this is done to prevent people who are too detail oriented from wasting the scammer’s time, if they sort themselves out the scammer can focus on the gullible people who will believe them later in the process. Trump uses child like grammar in the same way, it turns away educated people from his fans, reducing the risk that they will start convincing followers that Trump is bad, which increase the echo chamber effect.
Use of hyperbole: Phishing emails will push hard for fast action, telling you that doing X is extremely important, and needs to be done now. Same with Trump, there is always a big crisis, putting you on edge, stressing you out, this further reduce his follower’s ability to use critical thinking, so they will have an easier time to mindlessly support whatever action they are told will solve the crisis.
There are way more similarities, but I am on mobile, and starting to cramp, so I end this comment here.
TL;DR: Trump is a scam email.
I think he is a cursed chain letter. Everything he touches in the chain turns into shit.
It’s fun watching people debate whether the populist dictator that created a cult of personality using words and delivery is charismatic or not 😂
It’s all in how he communicates, not what. He’s an old-school con man, a confidence trickster. That whole style relies on the fact that people are really bad at judging character, and someone who lies with a straight face and never shows an iota of guilt will be believed to be innocent and truthful no matter what evidence is presented against them.
Combine that with a heavy dose of sunk cost fallacy and an increasingly uneducated and desperate electorate, and it’s easy to see why many follow him despite his near complete lack of articulateness.