I think GP is pointing out that the ability to command a following or convince people to follow in your footsteps does not a genius make. Brenton Harrison Tarr

I think GP is pointing out that the ability to command a following or convince people to follow in your footsteps does not a genius make. Brenton Harrison Tarrant commands a following and influenced a lot of copycats (his most recent disciple being the perpetrator of a certain shooting in Buffalo). So... can we categorize Tarrant as a genius purely on his influence of [others] that follow him?