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In reply to the discussion: We must face reality. Trump is not a stupid man. Far from it. [View all]Scrivener7
(51,228 posts)Something has allowed him to commit hundreds of crimes over the years and skate away from every one of them. He has gotten away with it for decades and decades. That needs something more than money to explain.
I agree with you about the astonishing animal cunning. I think that comes from his single minded self absorption. There is no one he won't throw under a bus. There is no act that is too terrible for him. That in itself, the extent to which he takes that, is fairly unique. He has ruined cities. He tried to ruin the United States. Imagine the perfect hubris that requires.
I think his talent is not traditional smarts, though. The closest I can come to describing him is not genius, but anti-genius. Which is not the same as the stupidity everyone in this thread is claiming.
It's the quality that lets him appeal so viscerally and perfectly to the stupid. It lets them hear him and think, "this guy is me." You have to think like stupid people to be able to do that, but then you have to be cunning enough to know what to do with their loyalty once you've gotten it.
I think that's what he has.
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