Why Do Some Leaders Attract So Much Strong Emotion?

A photograph can sometimes raise a question that is much bigger than the person pictured in it.

The image above asks whether President Donald Trump is one of the strongest leaders in history for enduring so much criticism and hostility. Whatever someone thinks about him personally, there is a more interesting question underneath it—why do certain public figures create such intense reactions in the first place?

It is a question that goes far beyond politics.