Another thread got derailed talking about Trump’s intelligence (or lack thereof) and personality (disorders).
But I think it’s an interesting topic.
My take:
He’s definitely a character that could have been conjured by a triumvirate of William Golding, Peter Benchley, and George Orwell
He’s purpose-built, running on fairly basic programming, as distinct from rational and deliberate thoughts
I think he’s of at least slightly above average intelligence, but his super power – really, really – is a totally sociopathic flavor of marketing genius, and it seems wholly intuitive to me.
He’s like the only high-profile man to speak Esperanto fluently, and he has found an audience that only speaks Esperanto, and who have – while understanding some others who are NOT Donald Trump – never understood, or felt understood by, any politician in quite the way they feel about him.
He’s as intelligent or as unintelligent as any demagogue or cult leader who came before him or will come after him. And at least as broken, as humans go.
Kyle Reese: You still don’t get it, do you? He’ll find her! That’s what he does! That’s ALL he does! You can’t stop him! He’ll wade through you, reach down her throat and pull her [expletive omitted] heart out!
–The Terminator (1984)
@Aspenglow : if you get bored and have the chance, I’d welcome the OT posts from the Mar-A-Lago docs thread here