Absolutely, although it's not even a case of being Trumplike, just steadfastly not playing the usual media game and not compromising your own strong positions. He had personal credability with people, spoke to material facts that working people overwhelmingly felt, and despite how enslaved by it this country is nearly everyone fucking hates the media and these sanctimonious establishment figures. I knew boomer-gen, life-long, one-nation Tories that voted for Corbyn in that first election because of that.

But the Corbyn movement took all the wrong lessons from that first near-win. They patted themselves on the back, looked at a temperorily shocked status quo for whom the reality hadn't fully sunken in yet and assumed they were the new normal. They spent time reaching out to their enemies and giving wreckers positions of power as though they were consolation prizes, all while the establishment was getting its ducks in a row for the most co-ordinated and far reaching attack I've ever seen in British politics.