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There are all sorts of intelligence. Of the current breed of would-be trumps, the intelligence to lead their way out of an open barn is not evident. And as for eloquence and charisma........words fail me....even if such an absence of vocabulary and personality has never bothered any of them.

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Trumpists and reactionaries tend to be low in the domain of emotional intelligence--hence prone to reactivity instead of reasoned response. Charisma is in the eye of the beholder. Eloquence will be a dangerously seductive quality of a prospective autocratic candidate.

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I'm not sure Trumpists and reactionaries would recognize eloquence if it bit them in the ass. Eloquence requires a bit more than Trump's 300 word vocabulary and 3rd grader's reading skills. They just want to hear simple slogans they can use to denigrate the Libs.

Charisma schmarisma! Just give them a candidate who can rile up a crowd!

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trumpers see him as a genius and see Biden as a doddering old man with AlzheimerтАЩs...where is their reality?

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With DT as the benchmark, the reach is a short one.

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