@michaelbd I appreciate your response to the Revolver piece. Charisma and policy are both important and ideally go together
Charisma is much more rare, and unlike policy agenda can't be faked. Charisma gives a leader independence from handlers
@michaelbd Ultimately it depends on what kind of change one thinks is necessary. For a system this corrupt and broken, my sense is nothing short of transformational change is really meaningful.
Charisma is especially necessary to this kind of change
@michaelbd But I'm not saying charisma is everything. Knowledge of how to navigate power, institutional knowledge, are nearly as important --- though these things are different from policy
@michaelbd finally, I never meant to suggest policy itself was unimportant. It's just less important than the other factors, and its very cheap and easy to signal
Charisma and ability to withstand attacks much harder to signal than ability to bandwagon a policy agenda
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The significance of Epps in relation to the pipe bomb comes up in relation to a recent Epoch Times report
According to the report, Epps told the FBI that he travelled to DC on Jan 6th because he was concerned bombs would go off and wanted to provide "first aid"
According to documents obtained by Epoch Times,
Ray Epps told the FBI he was afraid bombs would go off on the side streets on January 6th
Of all of the people Wray could have chosen to promote, he positions Steven D'Antuono, who oversaw the Michigan entrapment hoax, to run the DC office in the critical months before J6
Why pick D'Antuono?
D'Antuono is the public face of the ridiculous pipe bomb investigation...