They responded to this unoriginal take in TV interviews a while ago.

I’m not sure it’s that different. In place of a real personality, you get the country’s persona. With US foreign policy for example it matters little who leads because they are adhering to the persona. While the majority of Americans don’t want war, the US persona does. That results in the same thing (a population ruled by one idea set) just a hologram of person rather than an actual one.

Eh this argues that we even have a democracy that is functional enough to undermine in the first place, and I reject that premise.

This is by far my favorite in terms of confidence building: https://languagetransfer.org/

I felt more able to construct my own thoughts using this than tools like Duolingo or Clozemaster, though I do really like Clozemaster for different reasons.