Cults of personality can be susceptible to those kind of attacks though. Is only interesting as much as it influences his cult of personality and I guess what I

Cults of personality can be susceptible to those kind of attacks though. Is only interesting as much as it influences his cult of personality and I guess what I was getting at is how much of his actions are driven by genuine political beliefs and how much are purely for propagating his image. Because as he gets older, his image controls him, not the other way around. Keeping up a hard-man persona is difficult to do when you are a slightly prim aging bureaucrat.