Richard III is someone that we can relate to in class because he is an example of a tyrant. He used ways to win over the people that were morally wrong. The perfect word to describe the ways that he used to get people to follow him is toxic charisma. Charisma is used by almost all leaders and is very useful when campaigning and getting people to vote for you or follow your beliefs. Richard III used toxic charisma when he was crowned, he let all of his people down and went behind their back. Richard III is viewed as being a tyrant to many people because of this trait of toxic charisma.
Someone that can be portrayed as having toxic charisma today is Donald Trump. Many people believe him to have toxic charisma and use it to portray his willingness to change the country positively. Although many people believe that he is narcissistic and selfish. On the other hand some people like him a lot and the stuff he has done for this country. Going back to what makes someone a tyrant, I don’t believe that someone like Donald trump is a tyrant because he hasn’t committed murder or done something dictator-like to be called a tyrant unlike someone like Richard III.
I fond Bezio’s comparison of Trump to Richard III to be scarily dead-on. You’re totally right in that Trump isn’t having people murdered left and right, but, just like Richard III, he is insanely charismatic and seems to be able to get enough people on his side no matter what. Like Richard, Trump is never hurting for followers despite how so much media portrays him. Whether that is because they recognize something he is fighting for that others don’t, or because he really is that good at persuading people, or perhaps both–I have no idea.
I like your post but I felt as though you could have went into a little more depth as to how he was charismatic. For example telling the people what they want to hear and how he usurped power illegally. In addition, for your second paragraph regarding Donald Trump murder is not the only and main characteristic that makes up a tyrant and in addition, a tyrant and a dictator are different things. Overall very nice post just need to brush up a couple points and give a couple more examples.