A Strong Leader?

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Strong leaders. That’s what we, the people, want. But do we know the difference between a strong leader, a strongman and a populist?

Strongmen are driven by their instinct. An instinct that informs them that they are always right (because they are superior beings). They don’t believe in a political philosophy. They are the political philosophy.

Some of these strongmen are clever and patient enough to manipulate the environment to their benefit, others are not.

Trump “I know and hire the best people” clearly is neither intelligent nor patient. Xi and Putin are both.

Boris is less of a strongman and more of a populist. His political belief is: whatever works in the moment. He used antics to differentiate himself from the stuffy burocrats and espoused populist ‘ideas’, such as, notably, Brexit, to grab the British premiership.

More intelligent than Trump, for sure, but that’s no achievement, nor a qualification, if you, dear reader, allow me to digress:

Nobody who can remember person-woman-man-camera-tv would boast about it. They only would, if they themselves found it extremely hard and assumed that therefor other people would find it impossible. When his handler, driven to madness by Trump not being able to remember 5 words, and probably…