“Ouch. He admits that?”
Implicitly. He writes about his powers to convince, and how he can use “hope” and “change” to get people to follow him, and how he senses people project their emotional needs on him.
Openly, he did that. Actually, he was very perceptive and correct.
Should he have admitted that? We’ll see.
You know, Conservative’s first intuition is to take a pass on books written by the left. IMO< that is a big mistake. This is a very revealing comment.
You also mentioned him rising to something like a crime figure in his own words. Was that part in there too?