... I feel like I must be missing something.
Not everyone is highly vulnerable to the 'charisma' effect, though many are.
Bizarre as it may seem, Trump has some, Clinton doesn't.
One of the first thoughts I had about Trump, when he stepped into the race, was, "Would you but a used car from this man?", which I tried out on a Rightie blog. To my dismay, the response was a puzzled, "Sure, why not?"
Long ago I studied a psycho-philosophical school of thought that presumed humans generally live in a state of 'waking sleep', a condition of being able to walk around and do seemingly normal things, but all the while mentally in mostly a dream state.
