I am intrigued by this reply. This is a powerful insight.

BTW: your title for this piece grabbed me. I appreciate and can connect with your fierce wit. Your title sums and drives it all directly to a precise point.

Your insights and commentary on the optics of him too I appreciate. We are taught through smoke and mirror tricks to revere these people. We are supposed to see them, by design, as distinguished and all knowing. The deconstructing of people like him is a just cause.