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The Leader

Far-right leaders rely on personal brand loyalty and crisis politics to rally disillusioned masses. Hitler rose as a charismatic figure promising salvation while Trump grows an unhinged cult of personality. Both men cultivated followers not through complex ideas, but through simple, emotional rhetoric, offering themselves as the only solution to their nation’s crises while leveraging their image to stoke fear, hatred, and blind devotion.

The Leader