>I guess I finally understand the whole "I want a president I could play sports / grab a beer / whatever with" sentiment.
This always seemed like an excuse by a defeated people. They know their person in charge is a nightmare and limits their ability to be free actors, so they just rationalize it away in a Stockholm Syndrom-like way. "Hey he's a good guy, you'd like him if you met him."
I see this a lot with Russians who know full well Putin is dictator for life and they essentially have no rights or recourse against his administration, but play up a positive bullshit spin like "standing up to NATO/Nazi killers in Ukraine" or "bringing us back our Soviet glory." Its pathetic and on some level even the die-hards know it.
This always seemed like an excuse by a defeated people. They know their person in charge is a nightmare and limits their ability to be free actors, so they just rationalize it away in a Stockholm Syndrom-like way. "Hey he's a good guy, you'd like him if you met him."
I see this a lot with Russians who know full well Putin is dictator for life and they essentially have no rights or recourse against his administration, but play up a positive bullshit spin like "standing up to NATO/Nazi killers in Ukraine" or "bringing us back our Soviet glory." Its pathetic and on some level even the die-hards know it.