>>101705245> If anything, it should have made his campaign stronger since he was a bender who has seen the other side and realizes the non-benders are an oppressed class.I think the idea was that people didn't like being lied to. They felt like everything he said was built on a lie, so they couldn't trust him anymore. If he had been honest about being a bender in the first place maybe it would have been different. But then he would have run the risk of some people not listening to him on principle because he's a bender.
It could have been handled better, but just saying how they were probably trying to handle it.
