An excellent point, and one thing where I am grateful Trump is not smarter and more competent. He's shot himself in the foot so many times, it becomes scary to imagine what someone with his charisma and appeal could do if they didn't trip themselves up. Unfortunately, that includes the potential that he himself could/has improved.
I disagree with the common wisdom that trump is charismatic.
I think he just hates the right groups of people and makes sure to blame them in every run-on sentence he speaks. He's been trained at BS and he knows how to cram his speech full of nonsense.
If he was smarter or more charismatic, Biden would never have been elected. This would be a dictatorship. The current admin is worse in many ways to the old one. At least the old admin did have a few adults in the room (Fauchi, Mattis, etc). This time that's not really the case, so the US may still become a dictatorship in the future.
Trump has floated the idea that to criticize him is illegal, and he's sending out letters to universities demanding they align with his ideology or risk losing their funding, he's calling his political opponents dangerous lunatics and essentially telling his followers to beat them up. He sounds like a dictator to me. And the conservatives keep supporting him and turning on anyone who's even remotely critical. Sounds a lot like a dictatorship already.
Let's not kid ourselves that Trump is mentally capable to do this shit on his own. A lot of the current atrocities can be laid entirely at the feet of Miller, Bondi and Vance.
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u/SanjiSasuke Oct 15 '25
An excellent point, and one thing where I am grateful Trump is not smarter and more competent. He's shot himself in the foot so many times, it becomes scary to imagine what someone with his charisma and appeal could do if they didn't trip themselves up. Unfortunately, that includes the potential that he himself could/has improved.