it highlight the difficulty for western style democracy not to fall for con artist; more specifically the difficulty to have population break western state propaganda manipulations. The guy even manage to secure some support in left leaning reddit discussion thread early on, as someone who will finally change the system there after neolliberalism created stagnation in the economy.

sound like he desperately want to join epstein club and if selling out the country or burning it down to the ground to get his membership, he will jump at the chance.