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Misty Bastian's avatar

Yeah, he barely exists by ordinary measures, and that is his selling point. The Brazil connection is sobering, considering the ties between their former strongman and ours. And, of course, the unregenerate Fascists who have their own, insular communities in Brazil (and Argentina, to name two). The NY Times didn’t go into his immigration record, which seems as nonexistent as his employment and scholastic records. How did he slip through press scrutiny in two major elections?

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DWC's avatar

Somewhere, there is a bag of money in this story if there’s anything to the part about him substantially contributing to his own claim. Second, I suspect he is the tip of the iceberg in terms of political figures with very sketchy backgrounds. Certainly, there are advantages to having no background to scrutinize or, alternatively, a made up one. Third, one should suspect that there is someone, or some group, behind his manufacture. There are surely additional questions but I leave those, that I can think of, to Hollywood script writers.

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