Of Course She's Talking About Trump

Why, in some circumstances, does evidence of mendacity, crudeness or cruelty serve not as a fatal disadvantage but as an allure, attracting ardent followers? Why do otherwise proud and self-respecting people submit to the sheer effrontery of the tyrant, his sense that he can get away with saying and doing anything he likes, his spectacular indecency?

| Stephen Greenblat, Tyrant, cited by Maureen Dowd in Donald Trump's Insatiable Bloodlust