Historian explains Trump's 'magical thinking' and the far right's connection to the occult

[UCmeNdc]

One of the things you need to understand is that it’s not necessarily a political platform that Trump is providing for his followers. He’s creating an emotional state for them. This is something that George Orwell noticed in the 1930s when he was in Germany. He saw the rise of National Socialism and what was clear to him, but also very disturbing, was that people were not necessarily entranced by the trains being on time or by becoming more economically prosperous, but by the idea that they were becoming involved with some great mighty heroic endeavor.

Trumpism is a type of political cult. Given this reality, how do we make sense of the political imagination of the so-called alt-right and Donald Trump’s movement?



https://www.rawstory.com/2018/07/historian-explains-trumps-magical-thinking-far-rights-connection-occult/

[stopbush]

1. Not based in the occult, but in Christianity, which is nothing more

than a massive cult.