My “gut” told me the same thing.
There is something deeply disturbing about him.
I get a cult leader vibe, but also an empty vessel - soulless.
Yes. I heard a podcaster describing Talarico as wearing a skin-suit, and...boy, that fit in my brain like a key in a lock.
It definitely put a finger on something creepy. A skin suit like a shape-shifter, or someone to whom putting on a “skin suit” meant something other than a metaphor or the act of adopting a persona.
When I state that someone like President Trump is comfortable in his own skin, it means one thing, and a good thing, too.
But when I think of that same phrase in the case of Talarico, it has a whole different interpretation and meaning to it.
The very LEAST of which is “What is his “own” skin?”