It certainly wasn’t due to his own skills. He hasn't any. He hasn’t even had to work…the man has never held a real job. He was magically advanced to every phase of his nefarious life. It really is the most extraordinary thing.
Magical entrance to the most prestigious prep school in Hawaii, followed by Occidental, followed by Columbia, followed by “Community Organizing” where there were no accomplishments, followed by the most prestigious law school on the planet, followed by a magical appointment to Law Review Editor even though he never wrote or edited a legal paper, followed by an autobiography in his early thirties which he didn’t even write, followed by an appointment as CEO of the Annenburg Challenge which he no doubt assumed was a prestigious role rather than a money distributor, followed by an appointment as a State Legislator, followed by the waters parting to open a seat in the Senate, followed by Greek columns opening the door to the most powerful job in the world, followed by the Nobel prize in his first month in office, followed by article after article proclaiming him a near god, a god, a genius, the savior of the world.
And we wonder why he is such a narcissist.
Great article.
In other words, a cult.
You nailed it.