Why I was wrong about Donald Trump -- he's a 'strange attractor'...

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

79% : " What becomes evident from viewing these events on TV is that Trump loves the adoration of the crowd.
65% : Trump is one of a kind and escaped my ready-made categories.
63% : When, on YouTube or television, their voices speak to me from beyond the grave, my heart beats faster and I'm overcome with sadness that nobody today delivers such an effect.
63% : Trump is a boomer, who, online, sounds like a zoomer.
58% : Watching Trump be Trump can be vastly entertaining; there's no predicting what he will say next.
55% : Trump, after all, is a performer who carried a trivial reality TV show to popularity for more than a decade -- he well knows how to communicate with the American public.
54% : Let me offer a significant example: political oratory.
53% : The obvious reason was the physical courage and presence of mind that Trump showed during those deadly and chaotic minutes.
51% : In a world of politicians floundering in the storm, Trump imposes himself on his surroundings: He is the storm.
50% : In the most improbable turn of all, Trump has emerged as the avatar of the digital age, a Hegelian figure bearing the direction of history, the Weltgeist, upon his shoulders.
46% : The second reason pertains to what I would call the providential interpretation of Trump, to which he personally subscribes.
45% : The first descriptor I attached to Donald Trump, back when he took the lead in the race for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, was "empty vessel."
41% : For those too squeamish or skeptical to invoke the deity, I can produce a mathematical explanation: Trump is a "strange attractor," an incarnation of coincidences so incredible that they would be rejected out of hand in the most preposterous Hollywood script.
40% : I had difficulty fitting so many contradictions inside my head.
40% : The plodding hierarchies of the federal government have collided with the digital warriors Trump has let loose -- among others, Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency.
39% : I have no wish to glorify Trump or to assess his moral worth but only to figure out why, as an analyst, I missed the consequential dimension of his character.
36% : That can be dismissed as hubris, but I think that some part of Trump, like the rest of us, is grappling with how to make sense of Trump.
34% : My realization that Trump the actual human was playing at a higher level than I had grasped came with the near-assassination episode in Butler, Pa.
34% : Trump was the proverbial fish in a barrel, yet he was left dramatically bloodied but alive.
34% : His ostensibly fatal defeat in 2020 turned out to be the luckiest of breaks: The political steamroller that is Trump today can't be explained without reference to the corruption and incapacity of the Biden years.
33% : From the first, American elites saw in Trump the embodiment of everything they loathed about the new era.
32% : Elite hysteria, I believed, said more about their own inadequacies than anything cogent about Trump.
27% : The odds are massively against Trump replacing the existing system with one of his own -- though, of course, there's always that strange attractor force at work.
24% : All this could be interpreted as a criticism of Trump, but I intend it rather as a partial explanation of why I failed to obtain an accurate picture of the man.
24% : Simply by appearing dazed and old, Trump might have disqualified himself from elected office.

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