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[quote=Anonymous]Wikipedia has an interesting article on this. For the Greeks it was a gift bestowed by the gods (could be beauty, could be something else), and Greek translations of the bible used the word charis before Christ. Paul used charisma to meran the gift of God's grace. The sociologist Max Weber started using it:

Charisma is a certain quality of an individual personality by virtue of which he is set apart from ordinary men and treated as endowed with supernatural, superhuman, or at least specifically exceptional powers or qualities. These as such are not accessible to the ordinary person, but are regarded as of divine origin or as exemplary, and on the basis of them the individual concerned is treated as a leader.

I think with Trump we got someone who was artificially inflated by his TV career. I vaguely remember the word charisma popping up during presidential election campaigns back in the 80s--Chicago Tribune had the headline "DUKAKIS SURE ISN`T RUNNING ON CHARISMA" so maybe that's when it all started.

Some essayist wrote back in 2004 (about presidential campaigns)
I suspect the key to charisma is to like people. All politicians smile when they're working a crowd, but the really charismatic ones don't have to remember to smile. Their smiles are genuine, because they're enjoying themselves. If you look at photographs of Clinton in a crowd, time and again you see him stretching way out to reach people's hands--- often over his own Secret Service agents, like a basketball player stretching to block a shot. And he's not merely smiling. He's ecstatic. Working a crowd is not a duty for him; it's the part he likes.

Clearly this is not true of Trump. If you don't like him, he loathes you. So maybe it's really about how pleased they are with themselves. [/quote]

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