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Florida caves and allows AP Psychology class in humiliating defeat for DeSantis administration
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There was fear on the left and hope on the right that DeSantis would be "smart Trump." Just as evil as Trump is, but with more brains to be able to pull stuff off and less likely to be distracted by petty rivalries.
Since then, DeSantis has shown that he's not as smart as people thought he was, definitely can't sway crowds like Trump can, and is absolutely willing to pursue petty rivalries even when they don't benefit him.
I think this is the biggest issue. He doesn't have the charisma that Trump does. While I've found most of Trump's nicknames for people pretty stupid, "Meatball Ron" is on point.
I don't know what the fuck Trump has, but it's certainly not charisma. The guy can barely form a coherent thought when he's speaking, makes a fool out of himself every time he speaks, and is pretty much wrong about everything he says.
Still somehow has millions of people voting for him, so maybe it is some bizzaro reverse charisma or something.
Is he charming? Depends on preference I think. Does he "arouse fervent popular devotion and enthusiasm"? Absolutely. Why? Hard to say exactly (again, personal preference) but he fits the dictionary definition of "charismatic" to a T.
It's charisma. Just because it doesn't appeal to you doesn't mean it's not charisma.
I would say that it's a form of charisma. One that works on his MAGA faithful but that doesn't work on the rest of us. (If anything, it's like anti-charisma to us.)
Charisn'tma, is what I've taken to calling it.
He's smart, just not in the way a populist politician needs to be. What he is, though, is a fucking ghoul. His service has some pretty fucked up shit regarding torture regimes at gitmo.
If you listen to him talk for 5 seconds you can tell he sounds like a dork. Trump will call his wife ugly and he's done.