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Trump is in power because people, especially Democratic Party leaders, underestimate his area of genius, which is in propaganda, whether commercial or political. He learned political propaganda from reading Hitler's New Order: collected speeches. He also learn style, the defiant gesture, the exaggeration, the demonization to rile up a crowd and create a mass movement based not on goals but shared hatred.

His mastery of this kind of communication far dwarfs his intellectual shallowness in terms of persuasion and attracting followers. By focusing on this deficiencies instead of understand his great talents, his political opponents failed to find a way to undermine his rhetorical mastery of crowd control. It is easier to condemn than to understand, and that is why Trump is President today.

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