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He's an enormously capable self-marketer

AKA Fraud/snakeoil salesman

- astonishingly adept at harvesting free media, cultivating an image of himself among his customers/supporters, and recognizing far better than most what media channels are effective in this day and age at reaching his target audience.

A con is a con is a con..

...but he's better at comms than many other modern politicians

I have said the same, and stipulating that all politicians, especially in campaign mode, lie, nobody has ever lied as much, as compulsively, as blatantly, as Trump.

He's also fantastic at the "sharp elbows" style of politics - we disparage that today as being "autocratic," but it's been practiced by successful politicians for time immemorial (legendarily, LBJ was a noted arm-twister).

He's glamorized being a bully. He's encouraging/empowering his cult, lone wolfs and violent militias to extremes; J6, threats to people with opposing views at all levels.

He is anathema to democracy.

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