Say, you know who else was a self-obsessed clown with a strangely scattershot, impulsive style, an egomaniac who only loved himself — a narcissist with a taste for self-dramatization and a characteristic fondness for superlatives, known for a bottomless mendacity, peppered his speeches with coarse phrases and put-downs of hecklers, presented himself in messianic terms, promising to lead his country to a new era of national greatness, had a limited repertoire of topics, repeated mantralike phrases consisting largely of accusations, vows of revenge and promises for the future, etcetera, etcetera

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  1. Yeah, the TPM folks noticed this too. That Michiko Kukitani is a truth-teller. The whole review is definitely worth the read: a masterpiece of tendentious writing.

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