There’s no question this is true - and everybody knows it.
Yet all our “leaders” flew there to have their picture taken with him.
Who was Mandela? Reality (and this is still a flowery version, but it at least mentions it): https://time.com/5338569/nelson-mandela-terror-list/
“Leadership” is all about appearances, riding that wave, whatever it may be.
If it benefits them, they will do it (when the anti-war movement was popular): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIP0QtTewSw
Most of our leaders are OK with folks sticking scissors in the back of a babies skull if they think that'll help their political career.
These leaders will cause a war which kills hundreds of thousands because some rich business folks wanted Ukraine in the EU and NATO.
These leaders are OK with lying to the American people about mass surveillance and invasion of their own peoples privacy in violation of the US Constitution (still ongoing but revealed as far back as Snowden), torture, kidnapping, assassinating US citizens abroad without a trial or jury...
Do you really think the plight of some poor white dirt farmers in South Africa is a concern to our honorable leaders?
Trump is an anomaly. He isn't part of the political cabal. That's also why he's dangerous to the interests that have influence on our government, and hated by the political and bureaucratic establishment.