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 Originally Posted by BananaStand
There is simply no way that Trump could be where he is right now, if his behavior is guided by stupidity, impulsiveness, and misogyny. It's simply impossible to be all of those things, to the extreme that he's being accused of, and still be as monumentally successful as he has been in all things.
Not only is it possible, but it can be expected given enough election cycles. That's how probability works.
Further to that point, the expectation of undeserved success should increase when the starting point of the successful is elevated. The fact that Donald Trump entered the world with so many challenges already behind him is clear when you realize that at a certain point of wealth (one which Trump was born into) a person can cease to produce and live comfortably from the capital gains. I'm not claiming he did that (I'm also not claiming that he didn't unintentionally do a much more complex version of that which ostensibly looks like the opposite of what it is), I'm only saying he is not, by any stretch of the phrase, a self made man, and any claim that he is is a total farce.
That being said, I can see how people misinterpret his story as the story of a self made man, most importantly how he himself could do so-- and that's all that matters for this first paragraph to be supportive of the rest of your post which is quite good.
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