Explaining the Donald

Peter A Huff finds the rise of Trump can be understood in terms of magic

The King in Orange The Magical and Occult Roots of Political Power John Michael Greer Inner Traditions 2021 Pb, 201pp, £12.99, ISBN 9781644112588 Donald Trump may be the ultimate anomalous phenomenon – at least for our age. How did an elderly American real estate and entertainment magnate, with baffling coiffure and no record in public service, rise to the level of what monarchist Buddhists once called a global wheel-turner, changing the course of empire? In their search for answers to that question, pundits of all stripes have been scouring fields from economics and psychology to criminology and theology for nearly five years. John Michael Greer, no stranger to the seemingly impenetrable, takes the explanatory path less travelled. The Trump phenomenon can never be understood, he says, without serious consideration of…

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