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I may be in the minority on here but I do find someone who is prepared to speak the truth and offer a measured judgment without hyperbole quite charismatic. It contrasts so vividly with the alternative. Comparisons with China, Germany etc are just too stupid to merit response. When the guy is up against some described thus, well, I'll settle for the charisma (or lack of it) any day.
“This lack of moral conviction is not a secret. Rather than fooling everyone, he has in a sense never fooled anyone. Siblings, parents, teachers, bosses, subordinates, colleagues and friends have always seen through him. His housemaster at Eton wrote about the teenage Johnson’s “gross failure of responsibility” and his sense that he was “an exception, one who should be free of the network of obligation which binds everyone else”. His first Editor at The Times fired him thirty years ago for lying. His next editor at the Daily Telegraph called him “a morally bankrupt cavorting charlatan, rooted in a contempt for the truth”...”