Obnoxiousness Is the New Charisma
They market name-calling as truth-telling, pettiness as boldness, vanity as conviction.
.. “Strap on the full armor of God,” he reportedly exhorted campaign volunteers during a New Year’s Eve conference call, readying them for attacks from his rivals. At a Christian conference in Iowa in November, he told the audience: “Any president who doesn’t begin every day on his knees isn’t fit to be commander in chief of this country.”