Donald Trump’s dark necessities
I’ve been thinking. I’ve been thinking a lot about dark charisma. Dark charisma is the direct opposite of what former President Barack Obama has. Obama’s voice is a sonnet, enough to stir people into a frenzy because his charisma is of the good and just variety, and he is capable of moving mountains with one single oratory speech. He’s that good. He has that much charisma.
Dark charisma is another thing entirely. It sparkles alright but with specks of evil. It ruins and corrupts. It seeks to attract people for wicked purposes. It is the Dracula of politics—Donald John Trump. Yes, Trump has this thing we call dark charisma, and he has wielded it with the impudent lawlessness of the insane.
Unfortunately many do not have the capability to SEE it for what it is. What is dark and evil, capable of tempting many an innocent to take a bite of its earthy and toxic fruit, may appear to some as nothing more than a moment of silliness.
Few, if any, politicians have this dark charisma. JD Vance most certainly does not have it. But Trump isn’t the first to have this loathsome characteristic. Many past dictators and vile rulers also had it. Dark charisma is omnipresent in those who seek unlimited power.
Putin has it. Kim Jong Un has it. This is why Trump feels such a strong kinship with them. They can all recognize each other. Dark charisma, like water, always seeks its own level. So yes, many who voted for Donald Trump did it because they were under a spell—a spell of dark charisma, unknowing supplicants dragged into a glistening web, the trap set only for them.
The good news is that Donald Trump cannot serve a second term. There will be two open primaries in 2028. Because we, too, will have many people to choose from for our nominee, we have quite a bit—a field, if you will—of great politicians and orators who have not dark charisma but bright, soaring Obama-like charisma. Newsom. Whitmore. Beshear. Shapiro. Pete. The list goes on.
