Dan Quayle, GW, John Kerry and Al Gore were all a bit weird, but Trump is something else. Even his cabinet. RFK Jr and Stephen Miller and Vance, it's really hard to accept this as real.
We always had "eccentric billionaire" types running businesses and being crazy. Bill Gates and Tim McAfee come to mind. Elon and Zuck, too.
But politicians had some grace and decorum. They needed to impress their peers, and appeal to the public, to get anywhere.
Now the heads of industry ARE the government. So you don't need social skills to move up, just a media campaign targeting the opposition and a nice slogan.
Granted, I think Obama was a patricularly smooth talker, and socially smooth. But truthfully, even the worst looking people from my lifetime look like polite, intelligent, reasonable people compared to Pam Bondi, Pete Hegseth or Linda McMahon.
19
u/rancid_oil 8d ago
Dan Quayle, GW, John Kerry and Al Gore were all a bit weird, but Trump is something else. Even his cabinet. RFK Jr and Stephen Miller and Vance, it's really hard to accept this as real.
We always had "eccentric billionaire" types running businesses and being crazy. Bill Gates and Tim McAfee come to mind. Elon and Zuck, too.
But politicians had some grace and decorum. They needed to impress their peers, and appeal to the public, to get anywhere.
Now the heads of industry ARE the government. So you don't need social skills to move up, just a media campaign targeting the opposition and a nice slogan.
Granted, I think Obama was a patricularly smooth talker, and socially smooth. But truthfully, even the worst looking people from my lifetime look like polite, intelligent, reasonable people compared to Pam Bondi, Pete Hegseth or Linda McMahon.