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I tentatively suggest that Trump has some weird and fortunately rare people skills that normal people can't understand. That's just a short version of your question, though.

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I think it's more that we can understand it, we just don't want to be it; for most of us, being Trump would be white-hot psychic death. And I'm not talking politics here at all; the only way he's not lonely is that he's the only person that matters at all in his psychological universe.

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I don't know about you, but I absolutely don't have the skills. If I tried the Trump path, it would blow up in my face very quickly. It's not just about the emotional cost.

Meanwhile, I get distracted by occult theories. Have you read _Thornhedge_ by T. Kingfisher? It's excellent and may or may not be relevant to Trump.

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I haven't! Adding to.my reading ambitions.

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