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Monday 5 June 2023

Quentin Crisp

Could have explained the popularity
of Donald Trump. and other demagogues
who have become popular since his death,
if more people had listened to Crisp
when he was highly quotable and he said... 

'Charisma is the ability to influence without logic'.

This sentence alone would explain
why when he is interviewed on television
Trump starts thinking as he speaks,
but he never completes a thought.

Part way through another  thought
comes to him and the interviewer,
who should tell Trump to finish the first thought,
seems to be overwhelmed by the Trump charisma.

Crisp, by comparison, was an excellent
television interviewee, he tidied up
all his thoughts, as he presented himself
as more composed than television suggested
that anyone, once so marginalised, had a right to be.  

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