Raison d'État on Nostr: #Illhan Omar and Donald #Trump are very similar. Both are political outsiders who ...

#Illhan Omar and Donald #Trump are very similar.

Both are political outsiders who came to power over the objections of their party establishments.

Both are remarried divorcees and confessed adulterers, with adventurous sexual appetites and no qualms about dating across ethnic boundaries.

Both hired their current spouses at above-market rates before officially becoming an item.

Both have many children, but their partners did most of the child-raising.

Both were early adopters of social media to reach constituents, fans, and haters, bypassing traditional channels, and using language and humour in ways previously thought unbecoming of leaders.

Both benefit from their easily-triggered legions of haters, who are highly-ideologically-committed, while their actually political behaviour is often idiosyncratic and transactional.

Both draw political support from pious believers of religions they profess but don't practise (Islam and Christianity respectively).

Both draw political support from voters with strong ethnic identities (African-Americans, and White-Americans) even though they actually favour much smaller sub-groups (Somalis, and Jews).