War and Peaced
Tolstoy was also a Russian man
He says horrid things
Tolstoy has this passage somewhere in his work:
…amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. A handsome woma{Puti]n talks nonsense, you listen and hear not nonsense but cleverness. She says and does horrid things, and you see only charm ~
We encounter Trump. We see only charm. Such a nice man. He’s one of ours, after all (member of the community).