Yes there are other factors, policy does not explain 100% of political survival. And charisma does help one win popularity contests. You could write a post about it.
My point is not that charisma generally helps but that you have leader at the top who are good at one very specific thing.
For Obama for example it’s not 1-on-1 charisma but his ability to give speeches in a way that makes people feel things.
I don’t understand Trump to the level of being able to point at the one thing that Trump was really good at, but Trump is also an example of someone who seemed to be good at specific things that allowed him to dominate the media and that allowed him to be extremely bad at others.
Essentially, some people have “superpowers” and 3⁄5 of the last US presidents had one. If you count being the son of another president and the connections that come with that as an additional superpower it’s 4⁄5. I’m unsure about Biden, but I have relatively little information about Biden that’s goes deeper then political spin.
Many political candiates have nothing expectional going for them and when you see the people becoming president having superpowers, it might not be because they are any better at making political decisions then the average political candiates.
If making smart decisions was mainly about what gets you to be president we would see that US presidents that are as smart as FED chairmens but I don’t believe that any of the last five US presidents have an IQ of more then 140 (with the possible expectation of Bush where someone working with him made claims that Bush was that smart and Michael Moore more making a comment of how Bush being mentally quick enough to outwit him suggests that Bush is very smart).
Yes there are other factors, policy does not explain 100% of political survival. And charisma does help one win popularity contests. You could write a post about it.
My point is not that charisma generally helps but that you have leader at the top who are good at one very specific thing.
For Obama for example it’s not 1-on-1 charisma but his ability to give speeches in a way that makes people feel things.
I don’t understand Trump to the level of being able to point at the one thing that Trump was really good at, but Trump is also an example of someone who seemed to be good at specific things that allowed him to dominate the media and that allowed him to be extremely bad at others.
Essentially, some people have “superpowers” and 3⁄5 of the last US presidents had one. If you count being the son of another president and the connections that come with that as an additional superpower it’s 4⁄5. I’m unsure about Biden, but I have relatively little information about Biden that’s goes deeper then political spin.
Many political candiates have nothing expectional going for them and when you see the people becoming president having superpowers, it might not be because they are any better at making political decisions then the average political candiates.
If making smart decisions was mainly about what gets you to be president we would see that US presidents that are as smart as FED chairmens but I don’t believe that any of the last five US presidents have an IQ of more then 140 (with the possible expectation of Bush where someone working with him made claims that Bush was that smart and Michael Moore more making a comment of how Bush being mentally quick enough to outwit him suggests that Bush is very smart).